βούλονται (boulontai)

βούλονται is an Ancient Greek form of βούλομαι, meaning “to wish, want, prefer”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 394 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.28.3: πόλεμον δὲ οὐκ εἴων ποιεῖν· εἰ δὲ μή, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀναγκασθήσεσθαι ἔφασαν, ἐκείνων βιαζομένων, φίλους ποιεῖσθαι οὓς οὐ βούλονται ἑτέρους τῶν νῦν ὄντων μᾶλλον ὠφελίας ἕνεκα.

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 2.9·5: … τες ἐπὶ τὸ λεῖπον ἔτι τοῖς παροῦσι λόγοις ἀφιξόμεθα. τί δʼ ἂν εἴη λεῖπον ἄλλο γʼ ἢ ἐξηγήσασθαι σαφῶς, οἷόν τι βούλονταί τε καὶ ἀποδεικνύουσι περὶ τὴν τῶν χυμῶν γένεσιν οἱ παλαιοὶ συμβαίνειν. ἐναργέστερον δʼ ἂν γνωσθείη διὰ παραδε …

All forms of βούλομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.