Questions & Answers about Ik wil niet wachten.
Why does niet come before wachten?
In this sentence, niet negates the action of waiting. A key rule in Dutch is that niet is placed right before an infinitive verb (like wachten) at the end of the sentence.
Wait, doesn't wil mean "will"?
No, this is a very common false friend! The Dutch verb willen (where wil comes from) means "to want". If you want to say "I will wait" in the future tense, you would use a completely different verb (zullen).
Why is the verb wachten at the very end of the sentence?
When you have two verbs in a simple Dutch sentence (here, the conjugated verb wil and the action wachten), the second verb is always pushed to the very end of the sentence in its full dictionary form (the infinitive).
Why don't we use te for "to wait" (like "wil niet te wachten")?
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