願望

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See also: 愿望

Chinese

 
hope; wish; desire
hope; wish; desire; ready; willing
 
hope; expect; to visit
hope; expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); look towards; towards
trad. (願望) 願 望
simp. (愿望) 愿 望

Pronunciation

Noun

願望

  1. wish; desire; aspiration (Classifier: 個／个)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
願 望
がん
Grade: 4 		ぼう
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

願(がん)望(ぼう) • (ganbō) 

  1. wish, hope
    • 1939, 三木清, 思索者の日記:
      つまり自然(しぜん)の死(し)、極(きわ)めて日常的(にちじょうてき)に死(し)ぬることが日本人(にほんじん)の願望(がんぼう)なのである。
      Tsumari shizen no shi, kiwamete nichijōteki ni shinuru koto ga nihon-jin no ganbō na no de aru.
      In short, Japanese people's hope is to have a natural and completely ordinary death.

Verb

願(がん)望(ぼう)する • (ganbō suru) transitive suru (stem 願(がん)望(ぼう)し (ganbō shi), past 願(がん)望(ぼう)した (ganbō shita))

  1. to wish, to desire
    • 1935, 太宰治, 逆行:
      誇張(こちょう)でなしに、相手(あいて)を殺(ころ)したいと願望(がんぼう)したからである。
      Kochō de nashi ni, aite o koroshitai to ganbō shita kara de aru.
      To say that he wished he could kill his opponent would be no exaggeration.

Conjugation

Conjugation of "願望する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 願望し がんぼうし ganbō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 願望し がんぼうし ganbō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 願望する がんぼうする ganbō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 願望する がんぼうする ganbō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 願望すれ がんぼうすれ ganbō sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 願望せよ¹
願望しろ² 		がんぼうせよ¹
がんぼうしろ² 		ganbō seyo¹
ganbō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 願望される がんぼうされる ganbō sareru
Causative 願望させる
願望さす 		がんぼうさせる
がんぼうさす 		ganbō saseru
ganbō sasu
Potential 願望できる がんぼうできる ganbō dekiru
Volitional 願望しよう がんぼうしよう ganbō shiyō
Negative 願望しない がんぼうしない ganbō shinai
Negative continuative 願望せず がんぼうせず ganbō sezu
Formal 願望します がんぼうします ganbō shimasu
Perfective 願望した がんぼうした ganbō shita
Conjunctive 願望して がんぼうして ganbō shite
Hypothetical conditional 願望すれば がんぼうすれば ganbō sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

Korean

Hanja in this term
願望

Noun

願望 • (wonmang) (hangeul 원망)

  1. Hanja form? of 원망 (“wish, desire”).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
願望

Noun

願望

  1. chữ Hán form of nguyện vọng (“hope; aspiration”).
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