querido
Meaning
-
- dear
- lovely, cute
Frequency
Hyphenated as
que‧ri‧do
Pronounced as (IPA)
/keˈɾi.du/
Etymology
Past participle of querer. Displaced expected *quesido.
New
querer
-
- (intransitive,transitive) to want; to wish; to desire
- (transitive) to want
- (auxiliary) to want to (to feel the need to do something)
- (auxiliary,broadly) to mind; why don’t ... (used to make polite requests)
- (auxiliary,figuratively) to be almost; to be about to; to be likely to
- (transitive) to wish (something) (to want a particular condition to be applied to someone or something)
- (transitive) to wish (hope for something unlikely)
- (copulative,ditransitive) to want (to want someone or something to reach a given state)
- (transitive) to love (to have affection for)
- (figuratively,transitive) to need (to be improvable with)
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