want

want

want (third-person singular simple present wants, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted)

1. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something). [from 18th c.]

   What do you want to eat?

   I want you to leave.

   I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.

   I want to be an astronaut when Im older

   I dont want him to marry Gloria, I want him to marry me!

   What do you want from me?

   Do you want anything from the shops?

2. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist. [from 13th c.]

   There was something wanting in the play.

3. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something). [from 13th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:

     he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth [...] wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.

4. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something). [from 15th c.]

   That chair wants fixing.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacobs Room Chapter 2

     The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacobs window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.

Wikipedia want (countable and uncountable; plural wants)

1. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
2. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
   • circa 1591, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part 2, act 4, sc. 8:

     [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.

   • For Want of a Nail:

     For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

     For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

     For want of a horse the rider was lost.

     For want of a rider the battle was lost.

     For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

     And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

3. (uncountable) Poverty.

want

1. for, because

   Hij komt niet, want hij is ziek. — He is not coming, because he is sick. (Note: The order is SVO after want.)

	volere
	desire
	Avere un forte desiderio di qualcosa.
	To have a strong desire for something.

bisogno

desiderare

desiderio

mancanza

abbisognare

amare

anelare

aver bisogno di

awguro

carenza

cercare

deficienza

esigenza

fabbisogno

indigenza

mancare

miseria

necessitare

necessità

occorrere

povertà

pretendere

ricercare

sperare

vuole

Altri significati:

(transitive) To lack, not to have (something). [from 13th c.]

(transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something). [from 15th c.]

(countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.

(uncountable) Poverty.

lack (of)

(transitive) To wish for or to desire (something). [from 18th c.]

pursue (pleasure)

poverty

(countable) A desire, wish, longing.

(intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist. [from 13th c.]

(be) anxious to

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