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wollen

to want

The 59th most frequent word in German, appearing about 1,548 times per million words.

Type
verb
Frequency rank
#59
Per million words
1,548

In a sentence

Ich will schlafen.I want to sleep.

Conjugation

Present tense of wollen, plus the forms you need to talk about the past.

ich — Iwill
du — youwillst
er/sie/es — he / she / itwill
wir — wewollen
ihr — you (plural)wollt
sie — theywollen
Perfecthat gewollt
Simple pastwollte

Forms its perfect tense with haben.

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