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English
Pronunciation
Phrase
I wish
- (idiomatic, colloquial) Used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true
- I don't know how I'm going to afford all these Christmas presents.
- Maybe you'll win the lottery and become a millionaire overnight.
- I wish!
Usage notes
- The verb wish requires an object or prepositional phrase. In conversation, a preceding statement is the understood missing constituent of the complete expression.
Synonyms
Translations
I would very much like that to be so
- Arabic: لَيْتَ (ar) (layta), تَمَنَّى (tamannā) (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows)
- Catalan: tant de bo (ca), si (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 但願／但愿 (zh) (dànyuàn)
- Dutch: was het maar zo dat, or use auxiliary hebben (nl) with inversion and maar (nl) (Had ik maar veel geld. – If only I had lots of money!)
- Finnish: totta kai (fi), ilman muuta (fi)
- French: si seulement (fr), j’aurais aimé que (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows)
- German: wenn auch, wenn doch nur
- Hebrew: הַלְוַאי (halevái), כֵּן יְהִי רָצוֹן (ken yehí ratzón)
- Italian: magari (it), mi piacerebbe
- Japanese: (conditional sentence + ii noni (nā)) -ばいいのになあ (-ba ii noni nā), -らいいのになあ (-ra ii noni nā), -ならいいのになあ (-nara ii noni nā), -よいものを (yoi mono o)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: xwezî (ku)
- Malay: sekira, semoga
- Norwegian: skulle ønske det, skulle ønske jeg var
- Persian: کاش (fa) (kâš), کاشکی (fa) (kâški) (informal), ای کاش (ey kâš) (formal)
- Polish: jeśli by, jeśliby, o ile (pl), gdyby tylko
- Portuguese: oxalá (pt), quem me dera
- Russian: хоте́лось бы (xotélosʹ by), е́сли бы то́лько (jésli by tólʹko), е́сли бы (ru) (jésli by)
- Slovene: če bi le
- Spanish: ojalá (es), si (es), si tan solo, si tan siquiera
- Turkish: keşke (tr)
- Ukrainian: я́кби (uk) (jákby)
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