Re: The phrase 'I'd like...'

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> > I seem to recall that the French equivalent is "Je voudrais . . ."
> literally
> > "I would want . . ."  That strikes me as a slightly less indirect way of
> > getting the point across.
> >
> And Spanish yo quisiera, Germ. ich möchte (?)(subjunctives) , probably Ital.
> io vorebbe (?)...(conditional, like French)
>
German indeed has _ich möchte_ and so on. It's pretty literally "I would
like" - cf indicative _ich mag_ "I like".

                                                 Andreas

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