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querer

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querer

verb

to want · to love

Quiero un café, por favor.

I'd like a coffee, please.

More examples

¿Quieres venir con nosotros?

Do you want to come with us?

De niño quería ser futbolista.

As a boy I wanted to be a footballer.

Phrases

te quiero
I love you
sin querer
by accident

Querer a alguien is to love someone (family, friends, partners). Amar is stronger and rarer in speech.

Related

participio: queridogerundio: queriendo

Presente

Now and habits · I want

Pretérito

Finished past: yesterday, last year · I wanted

Imperfecto

Ongoing or habitual past · I used to want, I was wanting

Futuro

Future · I will want

Blue = ending · highlighted = irregular, learn it · dotted = spelling change

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