I want to know

English

English phrasebook

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Phrase

I want to know

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: 저 는 알 고 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: ผม อยาก รู้ (pǒm yàak rúu) (male), ดิฉัน อยาก รู้ (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)

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