Ingen vil drukne.

Here ingen is an indefinite pronoun meaning no one, nobody, or none.

In Ingen vil drukne, it is the subject of the sentence — the person or people doing the action.

A useful comparison:

• Ingen kommer. = No one is coming.
• Ingen mennesker kommer. = No people are coming.

So ingen can stand by itself as a pronoun, or it can come before a noun.

Because ingen and ikke do different jobs.

• ingen = no / no one / nobody / none
• ikke = not

So if you want to say no one, you use ingen:

• Ingen vil drukne. = No one ... drown

But ikke is used to negate the verb or the whole statement:

• Han vil ikke drukne. = He does not want to drown / He will not drown
  (depending on context)

A simple rule:

• Negating a person/thing as absent → often ingen
• Negating an action or statement → often ikke

Vil can mean want(s) to, but it can also help express the future, like will in English.

That means Ingen vil drukne can be interpreted differently depending on context:

• No one wants to drown
• No one will drown

Norwegian often relies on context to make this clear.

This is very common with vil. For example:

• Jeg vil spise. can mean I want to eat
• In some contexts, vil can also sound more like will

So if your learning material already gives one meaning, that meaning is the one intended there — but it is good to know that vil itself can be a little flexible.

Because after vil, Norwegian normally uses the infinitive without å.

So:

• å drukne = to drown
  but
• vil drukne = want to drown / will drown

This is similar to English after will, where you also do not say to:

• will drown, not will to drown

And even when vil means want to, Norwegian still leaves out å:

• Jeg vil spise. = I want to eat.

So Ingen vil drukne is correct, while Ingen vil å drukne is not standard.

This is normal Norwegian main clause word order:

1. subject = Ingen
2. finite verb = vil
3. infinitive/main verb = drukne

So the pattern is:

• Ingen
  • vil
    • drukne

This also fits the important Norwegian rule that the finite verb usually comes in second position in a main clause.

For example:

• Ingen vil drukne.
• I dag vil ingen drukne.

In the second example, I dag comes first, so the verb vil still stays in second position, and the subject ingen moves after it.

The base form is å drukne, meaning to drown.

In your sentence, you see drukne without å because it follows vil.

Some useful forms are:

• å drukne = infinitive
• drukner = present tense
• druknet = past tense / past participle in common Bokmål usage

Examples:

• Han drukner. = He is drowning / He drowns
• Han druknet. = He drowned

So in Ingen vil drukne, drukne is the infinitive form.

A rough guide is:

• Ingen ≈ ING-en
• vil ≈ veel
• drukne ≈ DRUK-neh

A slightly more careful pronunciation note:

• ingen: the ng sounds like the ng in sing
• vil: the vowel is a clear Norwegian i, somewhat like ee
• drukne: the u sound does not match normal English u exactly; it is more rounded and more central

So the whole sentence is roughly:

ING-en veel DRUK-neh

That is only an approximation, but it is a useful starting point.

Yes, it can do both.

In your sentence, ingen stands alone:

• Ingen vil drukne. = No one ...

But it can also go before a noun:

• Ingen barn vil drukne. = No children ...
• Ingen biler står her. = No cars are parked here.

So ingen can work as:

• a pronoun: Ingen kom.
• a determiner before a noun: Ingen elever kom.

That makes it a very useful word to learn early.