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JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

欲ほっする

hos suru

to want, to desire

More formal than 欲しい or 欲しがる. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. それを欲ほっするのは私わたしの中なかの獣性じゅうせいだ。

    It’s the animal in me that wants it.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 国司こくしは、完全かんぜんに名目めいもくだけの官職かんしょくとなり、戦国大名せんごくだいみょうが領国支配りょうごくしはいの正当性せいとうせいを主張しゅちょうするために欲ほっするようになる。

    The post of provincial governor became perfectly the nominal, and warlords came to want that post in order to insist the legitimacy of controlling their territories.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. それに比くらべて禅宗ぜんしゅうの精進料理しょうじんりょうりは、菜食さいしょくであるが、味あじがしっかりとしており、身体しんたいを酷使こくしして塩分えんぶんを欲ほっする武士ぶしや庶民しょみんにも満足まんぞくのいく濃度のうどの味付あじつけがなされていた。

    On the contrary, Shojin ryori of the Zen sect, although their ingredients were vegetable in origin, had strong taste and warriors and ordinary people who had to drive themselves and needed to take supplemental salt, were satisfied with such strong tastes.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 欲

  • 欲longing; covetousnessOnヨクKunほっする・ほしい

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