Questions & Answers about Hun vil spandere kaffen.
Does vil mean will or wants to here?
It can be either, depending on context. Vil is the present tense of ville, and with another verb it often expresses:
- wanting / willingness / intention
- sometimes simple future, like English will
In Hun vil spandere kaffen, the most natural sense is often she wants to / intends to pay for the coffee. It sounds more like a decision or offer than a neutral future statement.
Why is there no å before spandere?
Because vil is a modal verb, and modal verbs in Norwegian normally take the infinitive without å.
So you say:
Not:
- Hun vil å spandere kaffen
This is similar to English she wants to pay versus she will pay. After Norwegian modals like vil, kan, skal, må, and bør, you usually use the bare infinitive.
What exactly does spandere mean?