want

Signification (Anglais)

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).

Concepts

vouloir

désirer

souhaiter

aimer

manque

souhait

avoir envie de

espérer

requérir

besoin

nécessité

désir

misère

insuffisance

privation

réclamer

chercher

demander

exiger

défaut

avoir envie

avoir besoin de

indigence

pauvreté

je veux

volonté

attendre

prier

lain

rechercher

famine

convoiter

mandater

planifier

nécessiter

promettre

préférer

recommander

regretter

suggérer

supposer

absence

carence

déficience

envie

brûler de

languir

appeler

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wɒnt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.