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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

will

Related: bon vouloir

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

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