will
/wɪl/
Compare shall; To be able to, to have the capacity to; To choose or agree to; used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation
- he/she/it
- will
- past
- would
- past participle
- willed
Meanings
- 1
Compare shall — Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person
He will go with you.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
I will be with you.
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- 2
To be able to, to have the capacity to
- 3
To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation
- 4
To wish, desire (something)
- 5
Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference"rare
- 6
To habitually do (a given action)rare
- 7
To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that)rare
- 8
Implying will gorare