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Wollen

Wollen

See also: wollen

German

Noun

Wollen

  1. plural of Wolle

Luxembourgish

Noun

Wollen

  1. plural of Woll

wollen

wollen

See also: Wollen

Dutch

Adjective

wollen (not comparable)

  1. woolen, woollen

Inflection

Inflection of wollen
uninflected wollen
inflected wollen
comparative
positive
predicative/adverbial
indefinite m./f. sing. wollen
n. sing. wollen
plural wollen
definite wollen
partitive

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔlən/

Etymology 1

Wolle + -en

Adjective

wollen (not comparable)

  1. woolen, woollen
Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle High German wollen, wöllen, wullen, wellen, from Old High German wollen, wellen, from a blend of Proto-Germanic *wiljaną and *waljaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-. Compare Low German willen, Dutch willen, English will, West Frisian wolle, Danish ville. See also wählen.

Verb

wollen (irregular, third-person singular simple present will, past tense wollte, past participle wollen or gewollt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive or intransitive, past participle: “gewollt) To want; to wish; to desire; to demand.
  2. (auxiliary, past participle: “wollen) To want (to do something).
    Ich will gehen. — “I want to go.”
Conjugation