"want" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

want verbo

want + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 343
want revenge • want peace • want answers • want change • want people • want access • want freedom • want coffee • want action • ...
verbo + want
Kolokacji: 17
found wanting • keep wanting • make wanted • seem to want • go to want • ...
want + preposición
Kolokacji: 44
want out • want without • want from • want that • want for • ...
want + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 61
desperately want • definitely want • badly want • simply want • truly want • originally want • merely want • actually want • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) desperately, urgently
Kolokacji: 2
2. naturally want = naturalnie chciej naturally want
3. seriously want = poważnie chciej seriously want
4. earnestly want = szczerze chciej earnestly want
5. sorely want = gorzko chciej sorely want
  • After winning a bronze medal, and not achieving the gold he sorely wanted, he announced his intention to turn professional.
  • Elizabeth was so exhausted from her day's activities that she sorely wanted to smother Robin with her own sleeping mat, but she contained herself.
  • "It was either get the water or wait for tea, and Luke sorely wanted coffee."
  • I sorely wanted to sit still in my fever and think about him and say a silent good-bye.
  • But by cutting off the negotiations now, the Democrats conceded several other summer programs they sorely wanted.
  • Yet while the big set pieces are often exuberantly handled, the human details are sorely wanting.
  • Covenant sorely wanted to speak with her.
  • He sorely wanted cheerful company.
  • I sorely wanted to be in the back of our pickup over at the Latchers', eavesdropping on the men as they handled the situation.
  • He sorely wanted to be wrong about her, but probably she was just one of Thrax's minions.
6. want bad = chcieć zły want bad
(4) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(7) particularly, especially
Kolokacji: 2
(9) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(11) generally, specifically
Kolokacji: 2
(13) quiet, constantly
Kolokacji: 2

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