want

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
2. (broadly, transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
3. (transitive) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
4. (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
5. (colloquial, second-person, usually) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
6. (colloquial, transitive) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
7. (archaic, transitive) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
8. (dated, intransitive) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
9. (dated, intransitive) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
10. (archaic, transitive) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
11. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) 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. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
2. (countable) Lack, absence, deficiency.
3. (uncountable) Poverty.
4. (countable, uncountable) Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
5. (UK, countable, uncountable) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

Noun

A mole (Talpa europea).

Concepts

vouloir

désirer

souhaiter

aimer

❤️

manque

avoir envie de

espérer

souhait

requérir

besoin

nécessité

misère

désir

avoir envie

chercher

défaut

demander

exiger

insuffisance

privation

réclamer

je veux

avoir besoin de

attendre

pauvreté

indigence

prier

🛐

volonté

rechercher

🔍

mandater

recommander

regretter

carence

suggérer

supposer

appeler

absence

brûler de

convoiter

lain

famine

languir

envie

déficience

nécessiter

planifier

préférer

promettre

Synonymes

desire

wish

need

like

poverty

love

❤️

deficiency

lack

wish for

require

shortage

will

absence

destitution

necessity

long for

hope

demand

scarcity

requirement

indigence

request

crave

shortcoming

defect

covet

privation

dearth

anxious to

intend

ask for

be willing to

penury

look for

willing

think

🤔

neediness

feel like

flaw

aspire

seek

🔍

deprivation

ask

gap

expect

ambition

aspiration

shortness

hope for

hunger

Traductions

volere

querer

querer

wollen

willen

desear

voler

istemek

θέλω

verlangen

desiderare

desejar

wünschen

mancanza

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wɒnt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: wanten

Appartenant à moyen haut-allemand: wan

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: wan

Appartenant à ancien anglais: wana

Appartenant à latin: vanus

Hérité de moyen anglais: wont

Hérité de ancien anglais: wand

In summary

From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), 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

What do you want me to say ?

Que voulez-vous que je dise?

Why would I want to do that ?

Pourquoi voudrais-je faire ça?

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?

" I can clean up those glasses in the window , if you want ," said the boy .

"Je peux nettoyer ces lunettes dans la fenêtre, si vous le souhaitez", a déclaré le garçon.

This win influenced girls to want to play soccer on a team .

Cette victoire a influencé les filles à vouloir jouer au football dans une équipe.