willenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• wil, wille, wilen, welin, wole, wolle
• willian, wullen (early southwest Midlands)

動詞

willen (third-person singular simple present wille, present participle willynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle woldeaccel-form=1//3|s|past|ind)

1. to want something, wish for something
2. to be willing, consent, agree
3. to intend to do something, plan something
4. to mean, signify something
5. to direct, give directions
6. to require, demand, dictate
7. to be pleased with, like
8. (auxiliary) A modal verb with several meanings:
   1. Expresses purpose, intent: will
   2. Expresses willingness: will
   3. Expresses certainty: will
   4. Expresses habitual action: will
   5. Expresses ability, capability: will, can
   6. Expresses futurity: shall, will
   7. Expresses expectation, conjecture: will
   8. Expresses imminence, impendence: will, to be about to
   9. Expresses a suggestion, proposal: let's
   10. Expressing a modest, polite wish: would like
   11. Expresses hypotheticals: might
   12. Expresses possibility, probability: to be likely to, may

Conjugation

引用

• c. 1360s (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:

  I love no man in no gise, / That woll me reprove or chastise.

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

派生した語

• English: will
• Scots: will, wil
• Yola: woul, wull, weel, well, will, ill

参照

• “willen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

From Old Norse; cognate with Faroese, Icelandic villa (“to stray, err”).

動詞

willen (third-person singular simple present willeth, present participle willende, willynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle willed)

1. to go astray, wander, roam

参照

• “willen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 3

別の表記

• wyll

動詞

willen

1. present indicative/subjunctive plural of willen (“to want”)