Exprime un désir ou une volonté.
Expresses a desire or a wish.
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See how the word “Je veux” is used in sentences
Je veux apprendre à nager. — I want to learn to swim.
Je veux un café bien serré, s'il te plaît. — I want a strong coffee, please.
Je veux que tu m'écoutes jusqu'au bout. — I want you to hear me out.
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Download the app for free French vocabulary testJe veux is the plain present of vouloir, and it lands harder than English I want. In a café, in a shop, with a stranger, the French say je voudrais — the conditional, literally “I would like”.
The difference is audible: je veux un café sounds like a child demanding, je voudrais un café like an ordinary request. English has the same pair in I want and I'd like, and the same rule of thumb. Je veux belongs where you are speaking of your will in earnest: je veux apprendre à nager.
je voudrais I would like
The conditional, and the form for every order and every request to a stranger.
vouloir to want
Irregular: je veux, tu veux, il veut, but nous voulons.
j'aimerais I would like
Softer still than je voudrais, and closer to a wish than to a request.
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