I wish

English Pronunciation en en-au-I wish.ogg AU Phrase phr en idiomatic colloquial Used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true. en - 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 en wish requires an object or prepositional phrase. In conversation, a preceding statement is the understood missing constituent of the complete expression. Synonyms en from your lips to God's ears Related terms en you wish Translations I would very much like that to be so Arabic: ar لَيْتَ, ar تَمَنَّى (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows) Azerbaijani: az kaş Catalan: ca tant de bo, ca si Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 但願 dànyuàn Dutch: nl was het maar zo dat, or use auxiliary nl hebben with inversion and nl maar (Had ik maar veel geld. – If only I had lots of money!) Finnish: fi totta kai, fi ilman muuta French: fr si seulement, fr j'aurais aimé que (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows) German: de wenn auch, de wenn doch nur Hebrew: he הלוואי הַלְוַאי halevái, he כֵּן יְהִי רָצוֹן ken yehí ratzón Italian: it magari, it mi piacerebbe Japanese: conditional sentence + ii noni (nā) ja ばいいのになあ -ばいいのになあ -ba ii noni nā, ja らいいのになあ -らいいのになあ -ra ii noni nā, ja いいのに -ならいいのになあ -nara ii noni nā, ja よいものを -よいものを yoi mono o Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr xwezî Malay: ms sekira, ms semoga Norwegian: no skulle ønske det, no skulle ønske jeg var Persian: fa کاش kâš, fa کاشکی kâški informal, fa ای کاش ey kâš formal Polish: pl jeśli by, pl jeśliby, pl o ile, pl gdyby tylko Portuguese: pt oxalá, pt quem me dera Russian: ru хоте́лось бы, ru е́сли бы то́лько, ru е́сли бы Slovene: sl če bi le Spanish: es ojalá, es si, es si tan solo, es si tan siquiera Turkish: tr keşke Ukrainian: uk я́кби Anagrams en hiisw Hiwis en sentences