Idiom
I wish
Meaning
Used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I wish I had more time to relax.”
“I wish I could speak another language fluently, but I have not practiced enough yet.”
“He looked at the empty train station and sighed, wishing he had arrived earlier, though he knew the last train had already departed.”
Examples
simple
“I wish I had more time to relax.”
contextual
“I wish I could speak another language fluently, but I have not practiced enough yet.”
complex
“He looked at the empty train station and sighed, wishing he had arrived earlier, though he knew the last train had already departed.”
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