will

CEFRA1

/wɪl/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    Used to talk about what is going to happen or be done.

  2. 02

    noun

    A legal document saying who should receive your belongings after death.

Examples

  • My assistant will now demonstrate the machine in action.

  • I will be back soon.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [wɪɫ]
  • [wɪo̯]

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

  2. To be able to, to have the capacity to.

  3. Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • This will cost €30.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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...