WILL

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Traducere în limba română

will I. past would verb A. aux.

1. (serveşte la formarea viitorului I la pers. a II-a şi a III-a sing. şi pl.) vei; veţi; va; vor; o să;

they will come tonight (ei) vor veni diseară.

2. would (serveşte la formarea viitorului în trecut şi a condiţionalului; pers. a II-a şi a III-a) vei; va; vor; ai; aţi; ar;

he said he would come tomorrow spunea că va veni mâine;

he would come if he weren't so busy ar veni dacă n-ar fi atât de ocupat.

3. (în varianta americană, serveşte la formarea viitorului la toate persoanele) voi, vei, va etc.;

I will come at seven voi veni la (ora) şapte.

4. (modal, folosit la pers. I-a sing. şi pl. şi exprimând voinţa sau promisiunea) voi; vom; am să; o să;

I will do it o voi face, am s-o fac, am să fac asta (pentru că vreau, îţi promit etc.).

will I. past would verb B. modal

vrei; vreţi;

will you pass me the salt, please? vrei să-mi dai sarea (te rog)?;

I would not do it for the world n-aş face-o / n-aş face asta pentru nimic în lume.

will I. past would verb C. frecventativ

a obişnui să; (mai ales would) obişnuia să; obişnuiau să; (tradus mai ales prin imperfect);

he will sit there for hours şade / stă acolo / obişnuieşte să şadă / stea acolo ceasuri întregi;

he would sit there for hours şedea/ stătea acolo ceasuri întregi, obişnuia să şadă / stea acolo ceasuri întregi;

he would go to the beach every morning în fiecare dimineaţă obişnuia să se ducă / se ducea la plajă.

will I. past would verb D. noţional

(rar) a vrea, a dori;

I would it were otherwise aş vrea / dori să fie altfel; păcat că nu e altfel;

will II. substantiv

1. voinţă; voie; voliţiune;

of one's own will din proprie voinţă; de bună voie;

with a will a) bucuros; b) de voie, din proprie voinţă;

(rel.) thy will be done facă-se voia Ta.

2. dorinţă; poftă.

3. scop, ţel.

4. testament, legat;

to make one's will a-şi face testamentul.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“When I say I'll do a thing, I do it,” said Mr. Creakle; “and when I say I will have a thing done, I will have it done.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Of course I said all I could about being willing, and asked if I might come into that room when I chose.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Be one of them, and you will know all that there is to know.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin wants to write, but he's afraid to say so because it will put you in the wrong.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

And you will devote yourself to that?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile, come what may, Colonel Moran will trouble us no more.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your first was the Asp, I remember; we will look for the Asp.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I shall return to Brocklehurst Hall in the course of a week or two: my good friend, the Archdeacon, will not permit me to leave him sooner.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I'll have a try at it, Gladys, if you will only give me an idea what would please you.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took it as his master's will that Matt should drive him and work him just as he drove and worked his master's other dogs.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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