Dictionary
querer
Meaning
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- to want; to wish; to desire
- to want
- to want to (to feel the need to do something)
- to mind; why don’t ... (used to make polite requests)
- to be almost; to be about to; to be likely to
- to wish (something) (to want a particular condition to be applied to someone or something)
- to wish (hope for something unlikely)
- to want (to want someone or something to reach a given state)
- to love (to have affection for)
- to need (to be improvable with)
Hyphenated as
que‧rer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/keˈɾe(ʁ)/
Inherited from Latin
quaerō
Cognate with Galician
querer
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