querer

From Latin quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”).

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾe(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: que‧rer
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)

querer

1. to want

From Latin quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”).

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾeɾ/ [keˈɾeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: que‧rer

querer m (plural quereres)

1. love, like, liking

querer

1. to love
2. to like
3. to want
4. go to

   Esti zapatu quier romper.

   This shoe is going to break.

• quer

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese querer, from Latin quaerere (“seek, look for, desire”). Compare Portuguese querer.

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾeɾ/ [keˈɾeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: que‧rer

querer (first-person singular present quero, first-person singular preterite quixen, past participle querido)
querer (first-person singular present quero, first-person singular preterite quigem or quis, past participle querido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to desire; to want

   Synonym: desexar

   Quero comer. ― I want to eat.

   • 1671, Gabriel Feijoo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

     eu quero mal à esta jente / einos de por en talladas / esfarelandoll'os cascos / do corpo sacarll'as almas

     I wish ill these people / I'll make slices of them / crushing them helms / from them bodies I'll take out them souls

2. to love, to like; to be fond of

   Synonym: amar

   Quérote, meu ben. ― I love you, my treasure.

• querer mal (“to wish ill”)
• se Deus quer (“God willing”)

querer m (plural quereres)

1. will
2. love, affection

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “querer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “querer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “querer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “querer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “querer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

querer

1. inflection of quer:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Inherited from Latin quaerere (“seek, look for, desire”).

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ

querer

1. to want

• Galician: querer
• Portuguese: querer

• Universo Cantigas - "querer"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese querer, from Latin quaerere (“to seek, look for, desire”). Compare Galician querer.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈɾe(h)/, (without vowel harmony) /kɛˈɾe(h)/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /kiˈɾe(ɹ)/

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Homophone: crer (Portugal, with elision)
• Hyphenation: que‧rer

querer (first-person singular present quero, first-person singular preterite quis, past participle querido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to want; to wish; to desire

   Os meus filhos querem uma bola para o Natal.

   My children want a ball for Christmas.

2. (transitive) to want [with que (+ subjunctive clause) ‘something to occur’]

   Eu quero que venhas comigo.

   I want you to come with me.

3. (auxiliary) to want to (to feel the need to do something) [with infinitive]

   Os agricultores queriam colher o trigo.

   The farmers wanted to harvest the wheat.

4. (by extension, chiefly in the negative, auxiliary) to mind; why don’t ... (used to make polite requests) [with infinitive]

   Você não quer sair?

   Why don’t you leave?

5. (figurative, auxiliary) to be almost; to be about to; to be likely to [with infinitive]

   Está querendo chover.

   It’s about to rain.

6. (transitive) to wish (something) (to want a particular condition to be applied to someone or something) [with a or para or indirect object pronoun ‘for someone’]

   Não queremos nada menos do que sofrimento para os culpados.

   We wish nothing short of suffering for the guilty.

7. (transitive, in the imperfect) to wish (hope for something unlikely) [with que (+ imperfect subjunctive clause)]

   Eu queria que você estivesse aqui.

   I wish you were here.

8. (ditransitive, copulative for the second object) to want (to want someone or something to reach a given state) [with direct object and copulative adjective]

   São tantos que me querem morto.

   There are so many who want me dead.

9. (transitive) to love (to have affection for)

   Oi papai, quero-te!

   Hey dad, I love you!

10. (figurative, transitive) to need (to be improvable with)

    Essa música é boa mas quer um pouco mais de velocidade.

    That song is good but it needs a bit more speed.

In European Portuguese, the third person singular present indicative form is usually quer when not followed by an enclitic pronoun and quere when followed by one, so that one would write

Ele quer o livro. ― He wants the book.

Ele quere-o. ― He wants it.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:querer.

• (to desire): ter vontade de, desejar
• (to want to): ter vontade de
• (to be almost): estar quase/prestes a
• (to wish): desejar
• (to love): amar, adorar, gostar de
• (to need): precisar de

• requerer

querer m (plural quereres)

1. desire, will

Inherited from Latin quaerō (“seek, look for, desire”). Cognate with English query.

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾeɾ/ [keˈɾeɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: que‧rer

querer (first-person singular present quiero, first-person singular preterite quise, past participle querido)

1. to desire, to want, to want to

   Yo quiero leer ese libro.

   I want to read that book.

2. to love; to be fond of

   Te quiero. ― I love you.

   Ese hombre quiere a su país y moriría por él sin vacilar.

   That man loves his country and would die for it without hesitation.

3. (as an indication of a request) would you ... ?

   ¿Quieres decirme qué pasó? ― Would you tell me what happened?

4. to mean to, to try to

   No quería insultarte. ― He didn't mean to insult you.

   ¿Qué querías hacer de todos modos... impresionar a tus amigos?

   What were you trying to do anyway? Impress your friends?

5. (reciprocal) to love each other

   Ustedes se quieren. No dejen que su orgullo se interponga en el camino del amor verdadero.

   You love each other. Don't let your pride get in the way of true love.

• In the preterite, querer takes on special meaning:

  Él quiso resolver el conflicto.

  He tried to resolve the conflict.

  No quisieron volver a litigar los hechos del caso.

  They refused to relitigate the facts of the case.

• The imperfect subjunctive is also used for polite requests:

  Quisiera un vaso de agua.

  I would like a cup of water.

querer m (plural quereres)

1. love; affection; fondness

   Synonyms: amor, cariño

• → Cebuano: Querer
• → Tagalog: Querer

• “querer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024