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vouloir

/vu.lwaʁ/

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verb/vu.lwaʁ/

to want, wish, desire; to expect; to think; forms rhetorical questions, perhaps better translated to English by rephrasing with would or should; to see oneself as; to give the impression of, to seem

“Je veux voir le soleil.” — I want to see the sun.

Inherited from Old French voloir, voleir, from Vulgar Latin volēre, regularized from Latin velle.

noun, masculine/vu.lwaʁ/plural: vouloirs

vouloir is masculine in French.

will

Related: bon vouloir

Inherited from Old French voloir, voleir, from Vulgar Latin volēre, regularized from Latin velle.