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意味・対訳 欲する、(…が)欲しい、(…を)望む、用事がある、用事で捜している、したい(と思う)、望む、ほしいと思う、もらいた(くな)い、(…が)望む
- 〈人が〉〈…が〉欲しい,〈…を〉望む.
- I badly want a holiday [new car].
- ひどく休み[新車]が欲しい 《★【用法】 want を強調する時は badly がよく用いられる》.
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欲する 《★【類語】 want は欲する,望むの意の最も一般的な語; wish は可能・不可能にかかわらず願望する; desire は want とほぼ同義の形式ばった語; hope は望ましいことを実現が可能と信じて期待する》:
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コア(欠けているものが)(必要で)欲しい
動詞
他動詞
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b(人の存在)を必要とする,(人)に用がある;(性愛の対象として)(人)が欲しい
c(警察が)(人)を捜す[追う](通例受け身で用いる)
2《want to do》…したい⇒wish【ネットワーク】
3…が不足する,欠けている,足りない
4((口))(物・事)を必要とする
自動詞
成句want in
((おもに米口))中に入りたがる;(計画などに)関わることを望む
成句want out
((おもに米口))外に出たがる;〈計画などから〉のがれることを望む〈of〉
成句Do you want to do?
((口))…してもらえますか
成句It's [That's] just what I (always) wanted.
(贈り物への喜びを表して)ちょうど私が(ずっと)欲しかったものです
成句you want to do
…した方がよい,…する必要がある
名詞
コア・セオリー英語表現(基本動詞)での「want」の意味 |
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コアとなる意味 | (欠けているものが)(必要で)欲しい |
- Do whatever you want.
なんでも自分が望むことをしなさい - I'll come and see you again if you want.
あなたが望むならまた会いに来ましょう
- I want your telephone number, so I can call you later.
後で電話をかけられるように電話番号を教えて欲しい - Who wants another beer?
(誰か)ビールをもう一杯欲しい人はいますか? - What do you want of[from] me?
私に何をして欲しいのですか(→ofを使うとやや堅い.単にWhat do you want?とすると「何が欲しい?」だけでなく「何の用(だ)?」という相手を追う払うような表現にもなる) - All I want is a little of your time.
私が欲しいのは少しばかりのあなたの時間です
①b(人の存在)を欲する[必要とする],(人)に用がある;(警察が)(人)を捜す[追う](通例,受け身で用いる);(性愛の対象として)(人)が欲しい
- Our team manager doesn't want you any more.
うちのチームの監督はもう君を必要としていない - They wanted me as (the) captain of their team.
彼らはチームのキャプテンとして私を欲しがった - She's wanted at the party tonight.
彼女は今晩のパーティーに来るのを期待されている - You're wanted on the phone.
電話だよ - They are wanted for bank robbery.
彼らは銀行強盗の罪で警察に追われている - I want you more than anything else.
他の何より君が欲しい c((Wantedで))(広告・指名手配などで)求む - Wanted: a well-experienced secretary[a used computer].
求む.経験豊富な秘書[中古のコンピュータ]
- Do you want to go out tonight?
今晩出かけたい?(→申し出や依頼を行う場合は,Do you want (to do)...? よりWould you like (to do) ...? の方が丁寧で好まれる) - Who wants to go skiing with you?
誰が君とスキーに行くことを望むかな?(→字義通りの解釈だけでなく,Nobody wants to do....の修辞疑問文にもなる) - I just wanted to know if you're still thinking of me.
あなたがまだ私のことを思ってくれているか知りたかっただけです
(【語法】通例,wantは進行形では使わない.例外として,未完結な(継続)状態を強調したりするために完了進行形などが使われることもある.例:I've been wanting to have a word with you. ずっとお話したいと思っておりました) - You can stay over if you want to.
(→toはto stay over の省略形.toをも省略しwantを自動詞として使うことも可能→[自]) - Leave him alone; you don't want to make him mad.
彼はそっとしておきなさい.怒らせたくないでしょう?(→you don't want to doで「...したくないだろう」という警告的な内容を表すことがある) - I don't want to be boastful, but I did very well in the test.
自慢したいわけじゃないけどテストはとてもよくできた(→I don't want to doでbut以下の強い主張をあらかじめ和らげている)
②b((口語))((Do you want to do...?で))((依頼を表して))...してもらえますか
③a《want A to do》Aに...して欲しい[もらいたい]
③b《want A (to be) doing》Aに...して欲しい[もらいたい](通例,否定文で用いる)
③c《want A (to be) done》Aを...して欲しい[もらいたい](→Aが...されるのを欲する)
- We want the leaves raked by tomorrow.
明日までに落ち葉をかき集めてもらいたい - I want this tool used carefully.
この道具は注意深く使って欲しい - I want him fired.
彼をクビにして欲しい
③d《want A (to be) B》AはBであって欲しい[にして欲しい](◆Bは形容詞)
⑤((主に英口語))《want doing》...する必要がある(→文の主語が動作を受ける側になる)
⑥((主に英口語))((通例,You want to doで))...する必要がある,した方がよい(need to do)
It's[That's] just what I (always) wanted. (贈り物への喜びを表して)ちょうど私が(ずっと)欲しかったものです
want for ...が足りない[不足している](通例,否定文・疑問文で用いる)/ As long as I live, my daughter will[shall] want for nothing. 私が生きている間は,娘には何不自由させないつもりだ(→不足するものは何もないだろう)
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Wiktionary英語版での「want」の意味 |
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語源 1
From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), 古期英語 wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
発音
- (英国用法) enPR: wŏnt, IPA(key): /wɒnt/
- (米国用法) enPR: wŏnt, wŭnt, wônt IPA(key): /wɑnt/, /wʌnt/, /wɔnt/[1]
- (General Australian) enPR: wŏnt, IPA(key): /wɔnt/
- (New Zealand) enPR: wŏnt, wŭnt, IPA(key): /wɔnt/, (一般的ではない用法) /wɐnt/
- (Indian English) IPA(key): /wɔnt/
- Rhymes: -ɒnt, -ʌnt, -ɔːnt
- Homophone: wont (one pronunciation)
動詞
want (三人称単数 現在形 wants, 現在分詞 wanting, 過去形および過去分詞形 wanted)
- (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. [from 18th c.]
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
- 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
- Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
- The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
- Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
- (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
- Danish police want him for embezzlement.
- (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- (transitive, now 口語) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun または verbal noun). [from 15th c.]
- 1847, The American Protestant, page 27:
- In this we have just read an address to children in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in behalf of children who want food to keep them from starvation.
- 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], chapter VII, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
- (transitive, now まれに) To have occasion for (something requisite または useful); to require or need.
- 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent. [from 13th c.]
- a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Preface”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:
- (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
- 1605 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
- The paupers desperately want.
- (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something). [from 13th c.]
- She wanted anything she needed.
- (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.
- 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], (please specify |part=1 to 5), London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, page 50:
- […] which the Kings of Assyria had left for the maintenance of this Temple sacrifices, after the ouerthrow thereof, was shared among the Chaldzans; which they by this attempt were like to lose, and therefore were willing to want his presence.
使用する際の注意点
- This is a catenative verb. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Conjugation
infinitive | (to) want | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | want | wanted | |
2nd-person singular | want, wantest† | wanted, wantedst† | |
3rd-person singular | wants, wanteth† | wanted | |
plural | want | ||
subjunctive | want | wanted | |
imperative | want | — | |
participles | wanting | wanted |
同意語
- (desire): set one's heart on, wish for, would like
- (not to have): lack, be without
- (require): need, be in need of
派生語
派生した語
- Chinese Pidgin English: wantchee, 灣治
名詞
want (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 wants)
- (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
- (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
- A want of sense.
- (uncountable) Poverty.
- Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
派生語
- for want of
- want ad
- wantful
- wantless
- wantsome
- wanty
名詞
- (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
参照
- want at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “want”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- ^ Dictionary.com
- ^ “wont(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
アナグラム
wa'n't
別の表記
短縮形
wa'n't
- (colloquial, dated) Pronunciation spelling of wasn't.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
wan't
別の表記
短縮形
wan't
動詞
wan't
- Misspelling of want.
- 2007: “dldege”, Drupal: Can a .theme get the $node it's on?, “Not sure where you are”, the 30th day of January at 7:41pm
- Not sure where you are wan'ting access to the node.
- 2009: “Gregg B”, rec.games.pinball (Google group): Tech, Pinball pool, the 7th day of May at 3:13pm
- 2009: “Edvard Pitka”, nhusers (Google group): How to map Property I don't want setter for., the 8th day of May at 2:45pm
- 2007: “dldege”, Drupal: Can a .theme get the $node it's on?, “Not sure where you are”, the 30th day of January at 7:41pm
語源 3
Misspelt possibly by pronunciatory disanalogy with wonder–wander — whose first syllables are pronounced, respectively, wŭn and wŏn — the latter being closer to the pronunciation of won't: wōnt.
動詞
wan't
- Misspelling of won't.
- 2009: “Misiosława I Kwiecień”, SU Paris 2009 (Google group): Presentation !, the 23rd day of May at 4:58pm
アナグラム
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want
to apply for something
する
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to dare
(客の方から言うと)to give one custom―patronize a shop―(店の方から言うと)―have some people for customers―enjoy the custom of some people―be patronized by some people.
しんとする
to neglect anything
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