want

tahtoa

haluta

kaivata

tahto

toive puhekieltä To wish for or to desire (something). (defdate)

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The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.

he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth(..)wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.

Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh, let thy grace supply!

I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.

“Your hair wants cutting,” said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.

The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.

You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want.

For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.

Heavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

For want of a horse the rider was lost.

For want of a rider the battle was lost.

For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

Habitual superfluities become actual wants.

Hij komt niet, want hij is ziek. — He is not coming, because he is sick. (Note: The order is SVO after want.)