Questions & Answers about Vi vil bestille mad på en lille café i centrum.
Does vil here mean “will” (future) or “want to”?
In this sentence vil mostly means “want to”:
- Vi vil bestille mad … ≈ “We want to order food …”
- Danish doesn’t have a strict future tense like English. The present tense often expresses future, and vil adds a nuance of intention / desire.
So it’s more natural to understand it as “we want to”, not just a neutral future “we will”.
Could I just say Vi bestiller mad på en lille café i centrum without vil?
Yes, you can, but the nuance changes:
Vi bestiller mad …
= “We are ordering / we’re going to order food …” (a plan, arrangement, or something happening now/soon, more matter‑of‑fact)Vi vil bestille mad …
= “We want to order food …” (focus on wanting / intending to do it)
Both are possible; which one you use depends on whether you want to stress the intention/desire (vil) or just state what’s (going to be) happening (simple present).
Why is it bestille mad and not something like købe mad or just bestille?