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 Translation for 'to want to' from English to Portuguese
VERB   to want | wanted | wanted
wanting | wants
quererto want (to)
Partial Matches
ter vontadeto want
querer algoto want sth.
O que você quer? [Bras.]What do you want?
para {prep}to
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aderir ato adhere to
alheio a {adj}extraneous to
por causa de {prep}owing to
segundo {prep}according to
estar relacionado ato relate to
relacionar-se comto relate to
estar relacionado comto relate to
fazer referência ato refer to
referir-se ato refer to
fazer menção ato refer to
devido a {prep}owing to
pertencer (a)to belong (to)
parecido comsimilar to
similar asimilar to
pertença {f} abelonging to
devido a {prep}due to
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Usage Examples English
  • Certainly, Stig Hvide was not the only person who had a reason to want to see King Eric eliminated.
  • The narrator claims to want to flee civilization (i.e. ...
  • This made Mill believe that "our only ultimate end" He argued that humans have a desire to be happy and that that desire causes us to want to be in unity with other humans.
  • After the opening of the elevated line, real estate developers began buying up all the lots on either side of Liberty Avenue in hopes the new station would attract more people to want to live in Ozone Park.
  • According to Marceau, when he was five years of age, his mother took him to see a Charlie Chaplin film, which entranced him and led him to want to become a mime artist.

  • After an innocuous but seemingly salacious situation that Cutler walks in on at Bunny’s apartment, he recognizes the older Sumner has emerged as a romantic rival, and begins to want to commit to Bunny.
  • He wrote of "Political Consequences of the Social State of the Anglo-Americans" by saying: "But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom".
  • There is a common belief that some women are born without a hymen, Among various countries or cultures, males are expected or encouraged to want to engage in sexual activity, and to be more sexually experienced.
  • Later, when Laura seems to want to throw herself in front of an express train, the film makes the intention clearer by means of voice-over narration.
  • Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times", praised its cinematography, but warned viewers to "be prepared to want to come up for air only minutes into film", referring to the film's pointless plot.

  • As a consequence each individual is more likely to want to make riskier choices, and to do so more frequently.
  • Claiming to want to make reserves for difficult times, the authorities manage "off-budget" oil revenues in total opacity (the funds are placed in Paris, Switzerland and New York accounts).
  • He frightened his friends both with his drunken rants about the FBI and CIA and about his claiming to want to have Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker or Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders manage his career.
  • This caused many working on the project to want to accelerate development.
  • These individuals may have had the capacity to show empathy to others and come to the understanding that life has meaning - causing them to want to help Shanidar 1.

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