Jeg vil leie bil i helgen.

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Breakdown of Jeg vil leie bil i helgen.

• bilen: the car
• vil: want
• leie: to rent

Questions & Answers about Jeg vil leie bil i helgen.

What does vil mean here? Is it will or want?

Here vil is the present tense of the modal verb å ville, meaning want, not a future marker. So Jeg vil leie bil translates as I want to rent a car, not I will rent a car.

How do you conjugate vil for different subjects?

vil remains the same for all persons in Norwegian:
• jeg vil
• du vil
• han/hun det vil
• vi vil
• dere vil
• de vil

Why is there no article before bil? Shouldn't it be en bil?

In Norwegian you can omit the indefinite article after verbs when speaking generally. Both forms are correct:
• leie bil (concise, very common)
• leie en bil (explicit about “a car”)

Could I also say Jeg vil leie en bil i helgen?

Yes. Adding en before bil doesn’t change the meaning; it still means I want to rent a car this weekend. Including en simply makes the noun explicitly singular.

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