English [ edit ] if only
( idiomatic ) I wish that; signifies a wish or desire for the present or the future.( idiomatic ) I wish that; signifies a regret about an action in the past.
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signifies a wish
Arabic: ليت láyta ), تمنى tamánnaa ) (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows )
Catalan: tant de bo si (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 但願 但愿 (zh) (dànyuàn ), ...就好了 jiù hǎo le )
Dutch: was het maar zo dat hebben (nl) with inversion and maar (nl)
(Had ik maar veel geld.
Finnish: jos vain
French: si seulement (fr) , j'aurais aimé que a sentence in subjunctive mood follows )
German: wenn auch wenn doch nur wenn bloß
Greek: είθε (el) (eíthe )
Ancient: εἴθε eíthe )
Hebrew: לו loo ), לו רק loo rak )
Hungarian: bár (hu) , bárcsak
Italian: magari (it) , mi piacerebbe se solo
Japanese: ( conditional sentence + ii noni (nā) ) -ばいいのになあ -ba ii noni nā ), -らいいのになあ -ra ii noni nā ), -ならいいのになあ -nara ii noni nā ), -よいものを yoi mono-o )
Kurdish: xwezî (ku)
Latin: utinam (la)
Malay: sekira semoga
Polish: jeśli by jeśliby o ile
Portuguese: oxalá (pt) , quem me dera que a sentence in subjunctive mood follows )
Russian: хотелось бы xotélos' by ), если бы только jésli by tól'ko ), если бы (ru) (jésli by )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: да бар само да
Roman: da bar samo da
Slovene: če bi le
Spanish: ojalá (es) , si (es) , si tan solo si tan siquiera
Turkish: keşke (tr)
Ukrainian: якби (uk) (jákby )
Yiddish: הלוואי halevay, alevay )
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