De vill donera pengar.

Vill means want. It is the present tense of vilja.

A helpful thing about Swedish is that verbs usually do not change depending on the subject. So:

• jag vill = I want
• du vill = you want
• han vill = he wants
• de vill = they want

Unlike English, Swedish does not add an -s for he/she/it.

After a modal verb like vill (want), Swedish normally uses the infinitive form of the next verb.

So:

• vill donera = want to donate

The infinitive form is donera.
If you said donerar, that would be the present tense: donates / are donating.

Compare:

• De vill donera pengar. = They want to donate money.
• De donerar pengar. = They donate money / They are donating money.

In Swedish, att often means to, but after modal verbs such as kan, ska, måste, vill, får, bör, you usually do not use att.

So you say:

• De vill donera pengar.

Not:

• De vill att donera pengar. ❌

More examples:

• Jag kan simma. = I can swim.
• Hon måste gå. = She must go.
• Vi ska äta. = We are going to eat.

De here means they.

In careful writing, Swedish distinguishes:

• de = they
• dem = them

But in everyday speech, many speakers pronounce both as dom.

So although it is written de, you will often hear it pronounced roughly like dom.

This is a very common question.

In formal written Swedish:

• de = subject form = they
• dem = object form = them

So:

• De vill donera pengar. = They want to donate money.
• Jag såg dem. = I saw them.

In speech, both are often pronounced dom, which is why learners sometimes find the spelling confusing.

Yes—this is an important difference.

Swedish often uses pengar, which is grammatically plural, where English uses the uncountable noun money.

So:

• pengar = money

Even though it looks like coins / monies at first, in normal Swedish it is the standard everyday way to say money in general.

Examples:

• Jag har inga pengar. = I have no money.
• Hon behöver pengar. = She needs money.

Because the sentence is talking about money in general, not a specific set of money.

• pengar = money / some money
• pengarna = the money

So:

• De vill donera pengar. = They want to donate money.
• De vill donera pengarna. = They want to donate the money.

If you use pengarna, it sounds like both speaker and listener already know which money is being talked about.

Yes. This is normal Swedish main-clause word order:

• De = subject
• vill = finite verb
• donera pengar = rest of the predicate

So the basic pattern is:

subject + verb + infinitive + object

Swedish is a V2 language, which means the finite verb usually comes in the second position in main clauses. In this sentence, the subject comes first, so the verb follows it directly.

You usually put inte after the finite verb.

So:

• De vill inte donera pengar. = They do not want to donate money.

Structure:

• De = subject
• vill = finite verb
• inte = not
• donera = infinitive
• pengar = object

In a yes/no question, Swedish usually puts the finite verb first:

• Vill de donera pengar? = Do they want to donate money?

So the verb vill moves before the subject de.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is roughly:

• do-NE-ra

The stress is on the ne part.

A rough English approximation would be something like doh-NAIR-ah, though Swedish vowels are not exactly the same as English ones.

Yes, but the meaning is a little different.

• donera pengar = donate money
• ge pengar = give money

Donera sounds more specific and often more formal, especially for charity, organizations, causes, or medical/scientific contexts.

So in this sentence, donera is the most natural choice if the idea is donate rather than just give.