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English
Verb
would like
- (transitive) To want; to desire (used to form polite requests, suggestions etc.).
- Would you like some tea or coffee?
- I would like to congratulate you on your results.
- (intransitive, with a full infinitive) Used to form polite requests
- I would like to go swimming tomorrow.
Usage notes
Translations
transitive
- Arabic: وَدَّ (wadda)
- Armenian: ուզել (hy) (uzel) (conditional forms), ցանկանալ (hy) (cʿankanal) (conditional forms)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: Use the conditional of voler
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 想 (zh) (xiǎng), 想要 (zh) (xiǎngyào), 願意／愿意 (zh) (yuànyì)
- Czech: chtít (cs)
- Dutch: willen (nl)
- Finnish: conditional forms of haluta
- French: voudrais (fr), voudrais bien, aimerais (fr), aimerais bien
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: möchten (de), würden (de), hätten gern (de)
- Greek: θα ήθελα (tha íthela)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kér (hu)
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: ba mhaith le
- Italian: Use the conditional of volere
- Japanese: (the exact form depends on the situation, e.g. "何になさいますか。" (nani ni nasaimasu ka?) "What would you like to have?")
- Khmer: ចង់ (km) (cɑŋ)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: chcieć (pl) impf (politeness is expressed by conditional forms)
- Portuguese: gostaria (pt)
- Romanian: avea vrea (with the conditional conjugation)
- Russian: хоте́ть (ru) impf (xotétʹ) (politeness is expressed by adding бы (by) to the past tense forms, e.g. "я хоте́л(а) бы" - "I'd like" (m/f)), жела́ть (ru) impf (želátʹ)
- Sassarese: vuré (in the conditional mood)
- Spanish: gustaría (es)
- Swedish: skulle vilja (as "skulle vilja ha (have)" – wanting to have is not treated specially in Swedish)
- Thai: ต้องการ (th) (dtɔ̂ng-gaan)
- Vietnamese: muốn (vi)
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intransitive
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ուզել (hy) (uzel) (conditional forms), ցանկանալ (hy) (cʿankanal) (conditional forms)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: Use the conditional of agradar
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 想 (zh) (xiǎng), 想要 (zh) (xiǎngyào), 願意／愿意 (zh) (yuànyì)
- Czech: chtít (cs)
- Dutch: zouden graag willen
- Finnish: conditional forms of haluta
- French: aimerais (fr), aimerais bien
- Georgian: სიამოვნებით (siamovnebit)
- German: möchten (de), würden (de), Subjunctive II of verb + gern (de)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: szeretne (hu)
- Irish: ba mhaith le
- Italian: Use the conditional of volere
- Japanese: 欲しい (ja) (ほしい, hoshii), ...たい (ja) (...tai) (-i verb base + -tai, 1st person only) (the exact form depends on the situation)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: vil gjerne
- Portuguese: gostaria (pt)
- Romanian: avea vrea (with the conditional conjugation)
- Russian: хоте́ть (ru) impf (xotétʹ) (politeness is expressed by adding бы (by) to the past tense forms, e.g. "я хоте́л(а) бы" - "I'd like" (m/f)), жела́ть (ru) impf (želátʹ)
- Spanish: Use the conditional of gustar, or the imperfect subjunctive of querer
- Swedish: skulle vilja
- Ukrainian: бажа́ти (uk) (bažáty)
- Vietnamese: muốn (vi)
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