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Meaning: [wish in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/wish/). - Ils **souhaitent** y aller en vacances. They **wish** to go there for vacation. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8779811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8779811) [\#8779812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8779812)) - Certains groupes **souhaitent** présenter des amendements pour redresser la situation. Some Groups **wish** to table amendments to redress the situation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 854936) - Ils peuvent également, s’ils le **souhaitent**, soumettre un projet d’acte juridique. They may also, if they **wish**, submit a draft legal act. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2351730) - Je donne maintenant la parole aux représentants qui **souhaitent** exercer leur droit de réponse. I shall now call on those representatives who **wish** to speak in exercise of the right of reply. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10147695) - Ils **souhaitent** y aller pour les vacances. They **wish** to go there for vacation. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8779811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8779811) [\#8779813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8779813)) ## want Used about 4 142 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 563 · legal and administrative ≈ 183 · UN documents ≈ 2 391). Meaning: [want in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/want/). - Vos avocats **souhaitent** vous voir. Your lawyers **want** to see you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2013706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2013706) [\#8315033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8315033)) - Les pauvres sans terre **souhaitent** trouver des possibilités de survivre. The landless poor **want** to be given the chance to survive. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 361092) - Les entreprises qui **souhaitent** émettre des obligations doivent solliciter les services d'un établissement financier, agissant en tant que souscripteur. Companies that **want** to issue bonds need to solicit the services of a financial institution, acting as an underwriter. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4721248) - Par ailleurs, la LEFÖ-IBF organise le retour des victimes qui **souhaitent** être rapatriées. LEFÖ-IBF also organises the return of victims who **want** to return home. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29336528) - Ils peuvent rester avec nous s'ils le **souhaitent**. They can stay with us if they **want** to. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CH · checked, community translation · [\#7474013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7474013) [\#10712960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10712960)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tous ceux qui le **souhaitent** peuvent s'inscrire. Anybody who wants to can sign up. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9501717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9501717) [\#12630959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12630959)) - Tous ceux qui le **souhaitent** peuvent s'inscrire. Anyone who wants to can sign up. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9501716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9501716) [\#12630959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12630959)) - Je pense que Tom et Marie pourraient devenir enseignants s'ils le **souhaitent**. I think Tom and Mary could be teachers if they wanted to be. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and CT · checked, community translation · [\#6497842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6497842) [\#12842568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12842568)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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