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  • However even if a person makes a mistake inadvertively, say, confusing the context of querer, amar, desear, gustar etc. the other person with whom you are communicating will likely be looking for the 'meaning' behind the words.

    Affectionate terms and adjectives. 2007

  • However even if a person makes a mistake inadvertively, say, confusing the context of querer, amar, desear, gustar etc. the other person with whom you are communicating will likely be looking for the 'meaning' behind the words.

    Affectionate terms and adjectives. 2007

  • However even if a person makes a mistake inadvertively, say, confusing the context of querer, amar, desear, gustar etc. the other person with whom you are communicating will likely be looking for the 'meaning' behind the words.

    Affectionate terms and adjectives. 2007

  • However even if a person makes a mistake inadvertively, say, confusing the context of querer, amar, desear, gustar etc. the other person with whom you are communicating will likely be looking for the 'meaning' behind the words.

    Affectionate terms and adjectives. 2007

  • However even if a person makes a mistake inadvertively, say, confusing the context of querer, amar, desear, gustar etc. the other person with whom you are communicating will likely be looking for the 'meaning' behind the words.

    Affectionate terms and adjectives. 2007

  • However even if a person makes a mistake inadvertively, say, confusing the context of querer, amar, desear, gustar etc. the other person with whom you are communicating will likely be looking for the 'meaning' behind the words.

    Affectionate terms and adjectives. 2007

  • Para género de algodón el acabado (or aderezo) es todo lo que se puede desear.

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

  • Pero he aquí que cierta injusticia cometida por nuestro Jefe en daño de Ramón; uno de esos abusos de autoridad que disgustan de la más honrosa carrera; una arbitrariedad, en fin, hizo desear al Teniente de cazadores abandonar las filas de sus hermanos, al amigo dejar al amigo, al liberal pasarse a la facción,

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • … lo que descubrió una reveladora foto de Correo, sus limitaciones en cuanto a ortografía y sintaxis dejan mucho que desear.

    Ridiculing Peruvian Quechua-Speakers in El Correo » Sociological Images 2009

  • Subjunctive Mood -- aconsejar (to advise) alegrarse de que (to be glad that) avergonzarse de que (to be ashamed that) conceder (to grant) conseguir (to obtain) desear (to desire) esperar (to hope) evitar (to avoid) impedir (to hinder) mandar (to order) querer (to wish) rogar (to ask, to beg) sentir (to regret) temer (to fear) confiar en que (to trust)

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

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