I wish

English

(idiomatic, colloquial) Used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true
- I don't know how I'm going to afford all these Christmas presents.
- Maybe you'll win the lottery and become a millionaire overnight.
- I wish!

The verb wish requires an object or prepositional phrase. In conversation, a preceding statement is the understood missing constituent of the complete expression.

I would very much like that to be so

Arabic: لَيْتَ (ar) (layta), تَمَنَّى (tamannā) (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows)
Catalan: tant de bo (ca), si (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 但願／但愿 (zh) (dànyuàn)
Dutch: was het maar zo dat, or use auxiliary hebben (nl) with inversion and maar (nl) (Had ik maar veel geld. – If only I had lots of money!)
Finnish: totta kai (fi), ilman muuta (fi)
French: si seulement (fr), j’aurais aimé que (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows)
German: wenn auch, wenn doch nur
Hebrew: הַלְוַאי (halevái), כֵּן יְהִי רָצוֹן (ken yehí ratzón)
Italian: magari (it), mi piacerebbe
Japanese: (conditional sentence + ii noni (nā)) -ばいいのになあ (-ba ii noni nā), -らいいのになあ (-ra ii noni nā), -ならいいのになあ (-nara ii noni nā), -よいものを (yoi mono o)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xwezî (ku)
Malay: sekira, semoga
Norwegian: skulle ønske det, skulle ønske jeg var
Persian: کاش (fa) (kâš), کاشکی (fa) (kâški) (informal), ای کاش (ey kâš) (formal)
Polish: jeśli by, jeśliby, o ile (pl), gdyby tylko
Portuguese: oxalá (pt), quem me dera
Russian: хоте́лось бы (xotélosʹ by), е́сли бы то́лько (jésli by tólʹko), е́сли бы (ru) (jésli by)
Slovene: če bi le
Spanish: ojalá (es), si (es), si tan solo, si tan siquiera
Turkish: keşke (tr)
Ukrainian: я́кби (uk) (jákby)

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