querer

From Latin quaerere, present active infinitive of quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”).

querer

1. to want

From Latin quaerere, present active infinitive of quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”).

querer m (plural quereres)

1. love, like, liking

querer

1. to love
2. to like
3. to want
4. go to

   Esti zapatu quier romper.

   This shoe is going to break.

• Reference http://www.academiadelallingua.com/diccionariu/gramatica_llingua.pdf

From Latin quaerere, present active infinitive of quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”).

querer (first-person singular present quero, first-person singular preterite quixen, past participle querido)

1. to desire; to want
2. to love, to like; to be fond of
3. first-person singular personal infinitive of querer
4. third-person singular personal infinitive of querer

• (to desire, want): desexar

querer

1. inflected form of quer

From Old Portuguese querer, from Latin quaerere, present active infinitive of quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ke.ˈɾe(ʁ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɨ.ˈɾeɾ/

querer (first-person singular present indicative quero, past participle querido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to want; to wish; to desire

   Os meus filhos querem uma bola para o Natal.

   My children want a ball for Christmas.

2. (transitive with que) to want ... to (to want or demand a given thing to occur)

   Eu quero que venhas comigo.

   I want you to come with me.

3. (auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to want to (to feel the need to do something)

   Os agricultores queriam colher o trigo.

   The farmers wanted to harvest the wheat.

4. (by extension, usually in the negative, auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to mind; why don’t ... (used to make polite requests)

   Você não quer sair?

   Why don’t you leave?

5. (figuratively, auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to be almost; to be about to; to be likely to

   Está querendo chover.

   It’s about to rain.

6. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking a or para or an indirect objective pronoun) to wish (to want a particular condition to be applied to someone or something)

   Não queremos nada menos do que sofrimento para os culpados.

   We wish nothing short of suffering for the guilty.

7. (ditransitive, copulative for the second object) to want (to want someone or something to reach a given state)

   São tantos que me querem morto.

   There are so many who want me dead.

8. (transitive) to love (to have affection for)

   Oi papai, quero-te!

   Hey dad, I love you!

9. (figuratively, transitive) to need (to be improvable with)

   Essa música é boa mas quer um pouco mais de velocidade.

   This song is good but it needs a bit more speed.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:querer.

• (to desire): ter vontade de, desejar
• (to want to): ter vontade de
• (to be almost): estar quase/prestes a
• (to wish): desejar
• (to love): amar, adorar, gostar de
• (to need): precisar de

• requerer

From Latin quaerere, present active infinitive of quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”). Cognate with English query.

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾeɾ/

querer (first-person singular present quiero, first-person singular preterite quise, past participle querido)

1. to desire; to want

   Yo quiero leer ese libro. ― I want to read that book.

2. to love; to be fond of
3. (as an indication of a request) would you ... ?

   ¿Quieres decirme qué pasó? ― Would you tell me what happened?

4. To mean to

   No quería insultarte. ― He didn't mean to insult you.

In the preterite, querer takes on special meaning:

• Él quiso resolver el conflicto.

  He tried to resolve the conflict.

• No quisieron volver a litigar los hechos del caso.

  They refused to relitigate the facts of the case.

• querer decir
• sin querer

querer m (plural quereres)

1. love; affection; fondness

• amor
• cariño

• amar
• desear
• necesitar