want

Signification

Verb

1. To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
2. To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
3. To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
4. To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
5. (colloquial) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
6. (colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
7. To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
8. To be lacking or deficient or absent.
9. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
10. To lack and be without, to not have (something).
11. (obsolete) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
12. To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.

Noun

1. A desire, wish, longing.
2. Lack, absence, deficiency.
3. Poverty.
4. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
5. A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

Noun

A mole (Talpa europea).

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wɒnt/

Étymologie

From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.

Phrases

If you want it , you must take it .

Si vous le voulez, vous devez le prendre.

We dont want him !

Nous ne voulons pas de lui!

My daughter , you want to prevent us from working ?

Ma fille, tu veux nous empêcher de travailler?

He was absolutely the best " Star Wars " artist you could ever want to have .

Il était absolument le meilleur artiste "Star Wars" que vous puissiez avoir.

And I want you to know that I'm coming back .

Et je veux que vous sachiez que je reviens.

I don't want anything for myself .

Je ne veux rien pour moi.

That's the kind of stuff they want .

C'est le genre de choses qu'ils veulent.

He didn't want any conversation at this point .

Il ne voulait pas de conversation à ce stade.