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Etymology [edit]
From Old English giernan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijanan.
yearn (third-person singular simple present yearns, present participle yearning, simple past and past participle yearned)
- (intransitive, construed with for) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
- All I yearn for is a simple life.
- (intransitive, construed with for) To long back with melancholy, nostalgically
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Translations [edit]
to have a strong desire; to long
- Arabic: اشتاق (ar) (ishtaaqa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 想念 (cmn) (xiǎngniàn), 思念 (cmn) (sīniàn), 盼念 (cmn) (pànniàn)
- Dutch: smachten (nl), zuchten (nl), verlangen (nl) (naar)
- Esperanto: sopiri (eo)
- Finnish: kaivata (fi), haikailla (fi)
- French: languir (fr)
- German: sich sehnen (de), verlangen (de), vermissen (de)
- Greek: επιθυμώ (el) (epithymó), λαχταρώ (el) (lachtaró)
- Hungarian: sóvárog (hu), vágyódik (hu)
- Italian: struggersi (it)
- Japanese: 憧れる (ja) (あこがれる, akogareru), 恋い慕う (ja) (koishitau), 切望する (ja) (setsubō suru)
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- Latin: dēsīderō (la)
- Portuguese: ansiar (pt)
- Russian: скучать (ru) (skučát'), тосковать (ru) (toskovát'), жаждать (ru) (žáždat'), стремиться (ru) (stremít'sja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: че̏знути (sh); жу́дјети (sh) (Ijekavian), жу́дети (sh) (Ekavian)
- Roman: čȅznuti (sh); žúdjeti (sh) (Ijekavian), žúdeti (sh) (Ekavian)
- Spanish: anhelar (es), desear (es), ansiar (es)
- Swedish: längta till (sv), längta tillbaka till (sv), längta efter (sv)
- Turkish: özlemek (tr), hislenmek (tr)
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to long back with melancholy
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- Romanian: a tânji (după) (does the romanian entry here include the equivalent of the English particle "to"? Shouldn't it just be tânji?)
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