Verb

att vilja

to want

Beginnerverb

Meaning

att vilja is the Swedish word for to want — a verb you meet early when building Swedish vocabulary. Learn it in context with the example below, hear the pronunciation, then lock it into memory by playing it in the free LearnSwedishFast arcade game.

Example

Ingen vill ha krig.

Nobody wants war.

Short, natural learner sentences—meant for memory, not dictionary citations.

Word forms

Common inflected forms of att vilja you will see while reading Swedish.

  • velat
  • vilja
  • vill
  • ville

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