vontade de comer
English translation: 'wish to eat'
| 07:16 Sep 20, 2006 |
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|  Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 22:03 | ||||||
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| 5 +1 | to feel like eating |
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| 5 +1 | 'wish to eat' |
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| 5 | appetite |
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45 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1to feel like eating Explanation: he has felt like eating (...) Para desejos e grávidas, eu usaria 'to crave' |
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5 hrs confidence:
appetite Explanation: I wonder why they didn't use "apetite" in the original text. AHD confirms that it covers from mere wilingfulness to craving. |
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27 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1'wish to eat' Explanation: "Wish" is one of the translations of "vontade" in mt Michaelisdictionary. Another is "craving." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 hrs (2006-09-20 21:40:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- For your full sentence, "desire" is best. But I underetand that you want to aovid that. To make mine work, you would have to include a determiner: 'a/the wish'. The free translation, of course, is "she has really been hungry." The perfect tense isn't very appropriate here, because being hungry is an experience of the moment; it comes and goes. |
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