I want to know

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

I want to know

1. A request for information.

   Could you please tell me where to catch the bus? / Well, where are you going? What do you really want to know?

   I want to know the directions to the bus station.

   I want to know how to get to the bus station.

   I want to know where the M-5 bus stops.

Translations

I want to know

• Arabic: أُرِيد أَن أَعْرِف (ʔurīd ʔan ʔaʕrif)

  Egyptian Arabic: أنا عايز أعرف m (ʔana ʕāyez ʔaʕrif), أنا عايزة أعرف f (ʔana ʕāyza ʔaʕrif), أنا عاوز أعرف m (ʔana ʕāwez ʔaʕrif), أنا عاوزة أعرف f (ʔana ʕāwza ʔaʕrif)

• Armenian: ուզում եմ իմանալ (uzum em imanal)
• Assamese: মই জানিব বিচাৰোঁ (moi zanibo bisarü̃)
• Azerbaijani: bilmək istərdim
• Belarusian: я хачу́ ве́даць (ja xačú vjédacʹ)
• Bengali: আমি জানতে চাই (ami janote cai)
• Bulgarian: и́скам да знам (ískam da znam)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我要知道 (wǒ yào zhīdào)

• Czech: chci vědět
• Danish: jeg vil vide
• Dutch: ik wil weten
• Esperanto: mi volas scii
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: haluan tietää
• French: je veux savoir

  Middle French: ie veulx sçavoir

  Old French: vuel savoir

• Galician: quero saber
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ich will wissen
• Greek: θέλω να μάθω (thélo na mátho)
• Hindi: मैं जानना चाहता हूँ (ma͠i jānnā cāhtā hū̃)
• Hungarian: azt szeretném megtudni
• Icelandic: ég vil vita
• Italian: voglio sapere
• Japanese: 私は知りたいです (わたしはしりたいです, watashi wa shiritai desu) (formal, pronoun construct is not required)
• Jingpho: ^{(please verify)} ngai chye mayu ai
• Kazakh: білгім келеді (bılgım keledı)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 저는 알고 싶어요 (jeo-neun al-go sipeoyo) (formal, pronoun construct is not required)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} ئەمەوێ بِزانِم (emewê bizanim)

• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: aš noriu žinoti
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: сакам да знам (sakam da znam)
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} iried inkun naf
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jeg vil vite

  Nynorsk: eg vil vita

• Ojibwe: niwii-kikendam
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: азъ хоштѫ вѣдѣти (azŭ xoštǫ věděti)

• Old English: iċ wille witan
• Persian: می‌خواهم بدانم (mi-xâham bedânam), (colloquial) می‌خوام بدونم (mi-xâm bedunam)
• Polish: chcę wiedzieć, chcę znać
• Portuguese: quero saber
• Romanian: vreau să știu
• Russian: я хочу́ знать (ja xočú znatʹ), мне хо́чется знать (mne xóčetsja znatʹ)
• Scots: A want tae ken
• Scottish Gaelic: tha mi airson faighinn a-mach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хоћу да знам (Serbian), хоћу знати (Croatian)

  Roman: hoću da znam (Serbian), hoću znati (Croatian)

• Slovak: chcem vedieť
• Slovene: hočem vedeti
• Spanish: quiero saber
• Swedish: jag vill veta
• Thai: ผมอยากรู้ (pǒm yàak rúu) (male), ดิฉันอยากรู้ (dì-chǎn yàak rúu) (female)
• Turkish: bilmek istiyorum
• Ukrainian: я хо́чу зна́ти (ja xóču znáty)
• Vietnamese: tôi muốn biết
• Welsh: dw i eisiau gwybod, dw i'n moyn gwybod
• Yiddish: איך וויל וויסן (ikh vil visn)