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voloir
voloir
Old French
Alternative forms
Verb
voloir
- to want
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem vuel distinct from the unstressed stem vol, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of voloir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | voloir | avoir volu | |||||
| gerund | en volant, voillant, vueillant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | volant, voillant, vueillant | ||||||
| past participle | volu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | voil, vueil, vuel | vueus, vues | vueut, vuet | volons | volez | vuelent, volent |
| imperfect | voloie, voleie | voloies, voleies | voloit, voleit | voliiens, voliens | voliiez, voliez | voloient, voleient | |
| preterite | voil, vol, vous, voli, vousi | volis, vousis | vout, voust, voli, vousi | volimes, vousimes | volistes, vousistes | voudrent, volrent, voustrent, volirent, vousirent | |
| future | voudrai | voudras | voudra | voudrons | voudroiz, voudreiz, voudrez | voudront | |
| conditional | voudroie, voudreie | voudroies, voudreies | voudroit, voudreit | voudriiens, voudriens | voudriiez, voudriez | voudroient, voudreient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | vueille | vueilles | vueille | voilliens, voillons, vueilliens, vueillons | voilliez, vueilliez | vueillent |
| imperfect | volisse, vousisse | volisses, vousisses | volist, vousist | volissons, volissiens, vousissons, vousissiens | volissoiz, volissez, volissiez, vousissoiz, vousissez, vousissiez | volissent, vousissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | vueilles | — | vueilliens, vueillons | vueilliez | — | ||
- The past participle has the forms: feminine singular volüe; masculine plural volus; feminine plural volües.
Noun
voloir m (oblique plural voloirs, nominative singular voloirs, nominative plural voloir)
- desire; wish
- 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:
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Et dist l'abbet : « Vostre voloir ferons. [»]
- The abbot said "we will do your will".
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Et dist l'abbet : « Vostre voloir ferons. [»]
- circa 1250, Rutebeuf, C’est li diz des regles:
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Il welent faire lor voloir,
- They want to do their will,
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Il welent faire lor voloir,
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