hopefully (it is hoped that)
eş: so Gott will
köken: hoffen + -t- + -lich
Dans le cas où ; dans la mesure où.
eş: pour autant que, du moment que
🔊 Il peut être un élève excellent, pour peu qu'on l'encourage sans le juger.
Para expresar ira, maldecir, lamentarse.
eş: ojalá
even · maybe, perhaps
eş: addirittura, eventualmente, forse, anche, persino, perfino
köken: Borrowed from Greek μακάρι (makári, “I wish”), which is derived from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, happy”). Compare Portuguese macar (“although”, conjunction), Spanish maguer (“although”, conjunction) and Romanian măcar (“even”, adverb).
🔊 magari un'altra volta
second-person singular imperative imperfective of быть (bytʹ)
🔊 Будь со мной!
🔊 Он же сказал ей: дщерь! вера твоя спасла тебя; иди в мире и будь здорова от болезни твоей.
God willing; inshallah, if it is God’s will (literally, “if God has willed [it]”) · it is to be hoped; I hope; we hope so; hopefully
🔊 سَأَزُورُ أَقَارِبِي فِي مَدِينَةِ الرِّيَاضِ هَذَا الصَّيْفَ، إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ.
glass
köken: Likely borrowed from a Indo-Aryan language; probably from Hindustani (see Hindi काँच (kā̃c) / Urdu کان٘چ (kā̃c)), ultimately from Sanskrit काच (kāca).
would; if only (a conjunction indicating a wish, often for counterfactual events)
köken: From Persian کاش.
🔊 Kaş ki, gəlməyəydim.
🔊 Kaş ki, cavabı biləydim.
🔊 Kaş ki, deməyəydin bu sözləri.
God willing; hopefully; let's cross our fingers; inshallah
köken: Literally, “may God hear you”. Cf. Spanish Dios te oiga.
I wish
köken: From Ancient Greek εἴθε (eíthe).
Expresses desire.
köken: From the -ku nominal form of 願ふ (“to wish, to desire”, modern 願う) and the particle は. From kanbun kundoku, calque of Literary Chinese 願 (yuàn).
hopefully
köken: From förhoppning + -s- + -vis.
🔊 Förhoppningsvis får vi glass till middag
perhaps, probably, I believe, I think · at least · had better, may
eş: bodajże, chyba, podobno, choć, choćby, przynajmniej
köken: Inherited from Old Polish bodaj, bogdaj, bohdaj, a univerbation of bóg daj. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bogъ daďь.
aile: bodajby, bodajże, że bodaj
🔊 Poszedł bodaj w górę.
🔊 Pożycz bodaj na tydzień.
🔊 Bodaj palce mu zginęły!
may, let (expressing a wish)
çekim: çoğul на́ї · tamlayan на́ю
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *najь, a contraction of *ne xaji (“do not touch”). Compare неха́й (nexáj).
🔊 Най щастить!
I wish, if only
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian کاش (kāš).
🔊 काश मैं आज दुकान गया होता
absolutely, without doubt, unhesitatingly
köken: Literally, “without further (doubt)”
A statement of a wish that is hard or impossible to fulfill; if only
eş: ať, zda, zdali
köken: From the pronoun ké + the participle jže. The first element is the neuter gender of the pronoun ký (“which”). The second element is related to již (“already”).
🔊 Kéž bych tak mohl létat.
Subordinative conjunction: to · Expresses desire or wish in optative or jussive constructions: let, may, can · Forms the “future imperative”.
köken: Inherited from Latin sī (“if”). The semantic function might have been influence from Paleo-Balkan; compare Albanian të.
🔊 Vreau să dorm puțin.
🔊 Trebuie să mănânci ceva.
🔊 Să înceapă distracția!
Forms the second-person singular subjunctive/imperative of verbs (indefinite conjugation). It is also part of all subjunctive/imperative suffixes in both indefinite and definite conjugations.
🔊 Várj!
🔊 Várjak?
first-person singular present active subjunctive of sum
hopefully
köken: From German verhoffentlich.
thank goodness! (expresses gratitude or relief) · it's a good thing that...
eş: encara sort
🔊 Encara bo que has acabat!
to hope
çekim: geçmiş gobeithiwyd · şimdiki gobeithi
köken: Denominative verb from gobaith (“hope”) + -io.
🔊 Gobeithio byddi di’n well yn fuan.