Dizionario Croato - Inglese

hrvatski jezik - English

željeti in inglese:

1. want want


I want.
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
You want answers to questions you shouldn't ask.
You may write in any language you want. On Tatoeba, all languages are equal.
We want an assistant, preferably someone with experience.
Tomorrow we go to school to sign up for the classes we want to take.
If you want to learn a foreign language well, you should speak that language with native speakers as often as you can.
Smaller classes mean a higher standard of education, and that's what we want for our kids.
Now that I am well again, I want to study space science in college.
I have a ball-point pen, but I want another.
You say you want to visit Tom? Why in the world would you want to do that?
You might want to come over and play poker with me and my friends next Friday evening.
Tom invited me to Mary's party even though she didn't want me there.
In any case I just want to make clear that the fact that these are not normal people.
I'm tired. I just want to go on the teacup ride and take it easy.

2. desire


The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.
A chance to do as we please, especially to do as little hard work as possible, is a secret desire of almost everybody.
conscious desire
When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.
A young woman most penitently confessed to a friend of mine that an unholy desire to read women's magazines was her besetting 'temptation'.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
A high household savings rate in Japan is attributed, among other things, to people's desire to save money to buy a home.
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
I know you're at an age where sexual desire flourishes and you want to do 'you-know-what' with 'that' but... well, sit down there.
Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.
1. Failure was proof the desire wasn't strong enough. / 2. It's weird how strong that desire is. / 3. It's desire that drives me.