yearn in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

yearn in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for yearn in the English»French Dictionary

yearn Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to yearn for sth
désirer qc ardemment
to yearn to do sth
brûler de faire qc
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It poetically describes someone's yearning for a loved one.
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There is not a soul who does not yearn for concord and peace.
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Yearning for excitement in their lives, each of the women desperately make a wish for something to change.
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He gets all attention and love there but yearns to be adopted by a wealthy family.
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He yearned for a freer existence in which he could create for the sheer joy of creating.
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She yearns to be free and live life on her own terms.
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The avenues were guarded by broken-nosed angels yearning heavenward; one showed a leprous patch where her left eye and cheek had sloughed away.
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When you've just started reading one book, don't yearn for another.
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It's about how memory works, and yearning for and re-visiting the things that have played an important part in your life.
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However, his efforts begin to work against him, as he yearns for his own childhood dreams of marine biology.
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