Kilo Lingo

#143 of 5,000 Core 1000

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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This word is part of lesson 3.