Volapük for English Speakers: Lesson 1
Welcome!
"I want" in Volapük is vilob
Think of "will" as in "I have the will to do it"! That’s like "vil". If you want it, then you have a "vil" for it.
"to eat" is fidön
Think of the English word "feed".
?I want to eat|vilob fidön
"You want" is vilol
Notice that the ending has changed. In Volapük, the pronouns are put on the ends of the verbs. So it’s literally like "want-I" and "want-you".
?You want to eat|vilol fidön
"To want" is vilön
Notice that both "to want" and "to eat" have the same ön ending. We can literally think of this like "want-to" and "eat-to".
?I want to want|vilob vilön