Translation
to wish; to desire
Examples
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I wish you a good day.
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What do you wish?
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She only wished to stay.
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We wish you to come back.
deziron.
He has only one wish.
is a shade more formal and less blunt than . Its important trick is what happens after : a wish is not a fact, so the verb in the clause takes the volitive -u, , , never . That same -u follows , and . is the full form the greeting was clipped from.
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