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Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
verbo
- 1
Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
Do not forget, will you?
Will you be doing the shopping this evening? If so, will you do mine too, please?
Won't you have another glass of wine? — No, I think I’ll go to bed.
Can somebody lend me a hand? — I will.
- 2
To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
- 3
Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
He will be home by now. He always gets home before 6 o'clock.
I can't find my umbrella. I will've left it at home this morning.
I’ll kill anybody who touches my car.
“That will be five zloty.” I reached into my pocket and came up with some coins.
- 4
To habitually do (a given action).
Boys will be boys.
People will talk.
I will fall in love with the wrong women time and again.
The shapes of clouds will often remind us of animals.
- 5
To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation.
Will you marry me?
What will you drink?
I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.
- 6
To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
God willed it.
If thou wilt fare well at meat and meal, come and follow me.
Twelfe Night, Or what you will (original spelling)
- 7
arcaicoTo wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
Consider, if you will, the possibility that the sherry glasses were misplaced accidentally.
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see God's goodwill toward men, hear how generally his grace is proposed, to him, and him, and them, each man in particular, and to all. 1 Tim. ii. 4. "God will that all men be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth."
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arcaicoImplying will go.
I’ll to England.
Etimologia
From Middle English willen, wullen, wollen, from Old English willan (“to want”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognates Cognate with Yola ill, weel, well, will, woul, wull (“will”), North Frisian wale, wel (“to want”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian wolle (“to want”), Alemannic German and Central Franconian welle (“to want”), Cimbrian béllan, bölln (“to want”), Dutch willen (“to want”), German wollen (“to want”), Low German wüllen (“to want; will”), Luxembourgish wëllen (“to want”), Yiddish וועלן (veln, “to want”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ville (“to want”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish vilja (“to want”), Jamtish vili (“to want; wish”), Norwegian Nynorsk vilja, vilje (“want; will”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wiljan, “to want”); also Latin velle (“wish”, verb), voleō, volo (“to please, to wish; to want”), French vouloir (“to want”), Italian volere (“to want”), Irish fleá, fleadh (“feast”), Scottish Gaelic fleadh (“feast”), Welsh gwledd (“banquet, feast”), Lithuanian viltis (“to hope; to rely; to expect”), Czech velet (“to command”), volit (“to choose; to elect”), Polish woleć (“to prefer”), Russian во́ля (vólja, “freedom”), во́льный (vólʹnyj, “free”), веле́ть (velétʹ, “to command, to enjoin, to order”), Ukrainian воля (volja, “freedom, liberty, will”), вільний (vilʹnyj, “free”), веліти (velity, “to will, to order, to command”), воліти (volity, “to will, to prefer”), Old Armenian գեղձ (gełj, “desire, wish”), Sanskrit वृणीते (vṛṇīte), वृणोति (vṛṇoti, “to choose”). The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 3, below. (indicating future action): Compare typologically Bulgarian ще (šte), Macedonian ќе (ḱe), Serbo-Croatian хтети (< Proto-Slavic *xotěti).
sostantivo
- 1
One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
- 2
The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
Most creatures have a will to live.
The father chose the name and could change it later at his will.
- 3
One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
In the first place, although many people wanted nationalisation and it became the will of Parliament, there were many other people who did not want it, have never willingly accepted it, and never will.
- 4
Firmness of purpose, fixity of intent
...surely the link could not have been with Churchill the brilliant, gallant and steadfast wartime leader who, by dint of character, will and language, turned near defeat into victory.
- 5
A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
“Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will, I mean?”
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arcaicoThat which is desired; one's wish.
I auow by this most sacred head / Of my deare foster child, to ease thy griefe, / And win thy will [...].
- 7
arcaicoDesire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Etimologia
From Middle English wille, from Old English willa (compare verb willian), from Proto-Germanic *wiljô (“desire, will”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with Dutch wil, German Wille, Swedish vilja, Norwegian vilje.
verbo
- 1
To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- 2
To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
- 3
To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
Her parents were watching her run, willing her on.
They willed me say so, madam.
Send for music, / And will the cooks to use their best of cunning / To please the palate.
Etimologia
From Middle English willen, from Old English willian (“to will”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjōn (“to will”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with German Low German willen, German willen. The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 1, above.
Forme
- plurale
- wills
- passato
- would, willed
- participio passato
- willed, would
- participio presente
- willing
- 3ª persona singolare
- wills
will · Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
Will · A diminutive of the male given name William or, less often,…Willa · A female given name from the Germanic languages.Willard · A surname originating as a patronymic.