Illustration: Beside a rain-streaked window in a Japanese home, a child has hung a small handmade teru-teru-bōzu from the curtain rail. Their hands are now pressed together, and their face turns upward toward a small break in the clouds with an earnest, hopeful expression.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

願ねがう

negau

to wish for, to hope for

Example sentences

  1. 私達わたしたちは平和へいわを願ねがう。

    We long for peace.

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  2. 誰だれでも幸福こうふくを願ねがっている。

    Everybody desires happiness.

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  3. 私わたしたちはみな幸福こうふくを願ねがう。

    We all wish for happiness.

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Kanji in 願

  • 願petition; requestOnガンKunねがう

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