voloir

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin volēre, regularized from Latin velle.

Pronunciation
  • (archaic) IPA(key): /vuˈlei̯ɾ/
  • (classical) IPA(key): /vuˈloi̯ɾ/, (northern) /vuˈlei̯ɾ/
  • (late) IPA(key): /vuˈlo̯ɛɾ/, (northern) /vuˈleɾ/

Verb

voloir

  1. to want
    • 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini‎, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:
      si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience
      Just like the lord, who wants to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge

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
infinitive voloir avoir volu
gerund en volant, voillant, vueillant gerund of avoir + 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 present tense of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + 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 present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + 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 oblique singular, m (oblique plural voloirs, nominative singular voloirs, nominative plural voloir)

  1. desire; wish

Descendants
  • Bourguignon: veuloi
  • French: vouloir
  • Gallo: vóleir
  • Norman: vouler, vouleî
  • Picard: vouloér
  • Walloon: voleur
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