በእንግሊዝኛ ገራሚዋ ቃል-Wish/How to use it in real life conversations

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:05][music] >> What's up everybody? Today I'm not alone. I'm with Abraham. Yes, sir. Okay, thank you for coming. Thank you for having me here.

[00:00:25]>> My pleasure.

[00:00:36]All right.

[00:00:43]Okay. Okay.

[00:00:57]I got it.

[00:01:02]I want to be, you know. I want to be I wish to be you now.

[00:01:09]Okay, I'm going to Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course.

[00:01:14]I wish I were you. I wish I were you. I wish I were you. Of course. I were you see but were is a past tense of are.

[00:01:23]Yes, it is.

[00:01:24]Of course.

[00:01:27]Do they go together?

[00:01:30]Yeah, as far as we are talking about imagination. All right.

[00:01:33]>> As you mentioned earlier. I'm not you and you're not me, right?

[00:01:37]>> All right, excellent. This is just thinking about to be someone else.

[00:01:42]Excellent.

[00:01:42]>> you, I am who I am now. Okay.

[00:01:45]>> So Yeah, yeah. We're talking about unreal situations.

[00:01:55]>> Yes. We're talking about imaginary situations. Of course. But you're not Mahari.

[00:02:01]>> [laughter] >> I don't know. I wish I were you. I am not.

[00:02:10]I wish I were you. So say it again. I wish I were you. I wish I were you.

[00:02:14]Okay.

[00:02:17]Are we talking about No, we are not talking about the past.

[00:02:22]So We are wishing the present. But that present is unreal. It's not real. That's all. Okay.

[00:02:28]Interesting. So let's see.

[00:02:31]Even though were is the past tense of were here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I am not saying that's okay in spoken English. Yeah. I wish I was you. In spoken English it's okay but grammatically speaking no. Standard English. Since we are teachers here Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:48]I wish I were you is correct. Yeah.

[00:02:50]Yeah. Okay.

[00:02:52]I wish I were you is grammatically correct. I wish I were you. All right.

[00:02:56]Interesting. I wish I were you.

[00:03:00]Yeah. Of course. Yeah. It means I am not Oh my goodness.

[00:03:04]>> [laughter] >> He's super rich. He's a fast car, right?

[00:03:08]He's a fast car. I mean he's super rich.

[00:03:10]Yeah. Yeah. So I wish I were I think he's a person, right? Yeah.

[00:03:15]Dangote. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I were Dangote. I wish I were Dangote. Yeah.

[00:03:21]Yeah.

[00:03:24]For now I am a brother. All right.

[00:03:26]>> [laughter] >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I wish I were not I wish I were not I wish I were not here. I wish I were not >> Oh my god. So you are It's okay. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I were not here.

[00:03:49]Right.

[00:03:53]Yes or no? Yeah. Okay.

[00:03:56]>> Okay, I wish I were not I were not uh who I am currently, maybe. All right, or in Addis Ababa? Yeah, I wish I were not in Addis Ababa. Because? Cost of living is Yeah, the inflation [laughter] is really high. All right, [clears throat] I wish I were not in Addis Ababa, but Anyways, like manage were managing subjective were managing past tense of ours were I don't know what it is. She may go she may go whatever the subject is.

[00:04:28]But we're talking about animal situations, imaginary situations, we're imagining that we're not So we have to use were. Yeah.

[00:04:38]I understand. I understand. Okay, I don't know what to say.

[00:04:41]What I mean >> [laughter] >> I mean I wish I had a lot of money, maybe. I wish I had a lot of money. Yeah. I wish I had a lot of money. That's a beautiful, man. Yeah, everybody wish that, right?

[00:05:02]Everybody wish that. I wish I had a lot of money. Yeah. Right? Okay. So like Why don't you say I wish I have a lot of money? Like a lot of people This is I wish I have a lot of money. Why?

[00:05:19]Why do you say that? I wish I had a lot of money. There there there is the reason why we don't uh use have in this case. Mhm. Cuz we don't have a lot of money. Yeah, come We don't have a lot of money these days.

[00:05:29]All right, that's why we we we are wishing, right?

[00:05:31]>> Yeah, we're wishing, we're imagining Yeah, yeah. that we don't have. We don't have.

[00:05:43]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, of of course, yes. So What is the difference between I wish to have a lot of money and I wish I had a lot of money? What are the two of I wish to have a lot of money. I wish I had a lot of money. The difference is between these two. I mean, I wish I had seen him.

[00:06:03]I wish I had seen him.

[00:06:06]I wish to have a lot of money, so I wish to have Oh.

[00:06:19]Yeah. I wish I had a lot of money. You would just you want to have a lot of money in the future. Yeah. Yeah. But when you say I wish I had seen him, I wish I wish I had.

[00:06:34]I wish I had a younger sister, maybe.

[00:06:36]>> I wish I had a younger sister. I wish Yeah. All right.

[00:06:52]I had a house. I wish I had a house. I wish I had a house. Say it again. I wish I had a house. I wish I had a house.

[00:06:58]Yeah. Right?

[00:07:01]Yeah, whatever they want. Yeah, I wish I had. Mhm. Right? I wish I had. I wish I had.

[00:07:06]>> Yeah. Very good.

[00:07:09]I wish I had.

[00:07:17]Yeah.

[00:07:18]I wish I had enough time. I wish I had enough time. Very good.

[00:07:25]>> [clears throat] >> I wish I didn't have I wish I didn't have. I wish I didn't have I wish I didn't have what?

[00:07:38][clears throat] >> [laughter] >> Yeah. wish I didn't have many friends. I wish I didn't have many friends.

[00:07:58]I wish I didn't have blood You're not going to have to be not happy with It's about that you get I don't know what you say.

[00:08:16]I shouldn't have been happy with Those 10 friends. My god, okay.

[00:08:26]People are happy.

[00:08:29]Such number of What is it called?

[00:08:32]Brothers. Yeah, yeah.

[00:08:36]Okay, I wish I didn't have 10 brothers.

[00:08:39]I wish I didn't have 10 brothers.

[00:08:41]>> Yeah.

[00:08:43]You're not happy with Yeah. having 10 brothers All right, interesting. So, I wish I didn't have Yeah.

[00:08:56]I wish I didn't have We're we're talking about the present that we don't have. All right.

[00:09:08]I wish I had I I wish I didn't have this. All right, interesting. That that that's a beautiful All right.

[00:09:19]Yeah, I got you. All right, I'm going Both to have got it now. Yeah, yeah, of course.

[00:09:26]action Let's go for it. Yeah.

[00:09:38]I wish I ate. I wish I ate. I ate.

[00:09:45]I wish I ate burger. Yeah, yeah. I wish I ate burger, which means I don't eat burger. I don't eat burger. That's not your habit to eat burger. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:09:54]I wish I ate I ate burger. Yeah. I wish I eat money that I tell him.

[00:10:00]Because we're talking about imagination.

[00:10:02]Imagination. All right.

[00:10:09]I wish I ate. All right.

[00:10:15]How do you know?

[00:10:16]No, [laughter] no, I don't know, no, no, I don't know, right?

[00:10:18]But like imagine that you're not really a Yeah, I'm not I'm not really a You can say that actually.

[00:10:23]Yeah, okay. So I'm not really a man.

[00:10:29]I wish I read. I wish I I read a book.

[00:10:33]So you say it again? I wish I read books. I wish I read books. See now I don't.

[00:10:39]This feeling about the good I don't know I wish I read books, all right. I wish I read books. The problem is I don't read books, all right. I don't read. Okay, I wish I read.

[00:10:50]The past tense of read is read. Read.

[00:10:53]The spelling is the same but the pronunciation is different.

[00:10:56]Spelling read.

[00:11:02]Read, no matter.

[00:11:04]I wish I read books. All right.

[00:11:09]So why don't you read? You know Why don't you read? All right. Okay, interesting. So I'm Yeah.

[00:11:18]All right.

[00:11:22]>> [laughter] >> I wish I wish I prayed. I wish I prayed.

[00:11:37]You know I wish I prayed.

[00:11:41]I wish I prayed.

[00:11:52]I don't pray. But he wish, right? But I wish.

[00:11:55]I wish I prayed. Yes. I wish I prayed. I wish I prayed.

[00:12:02]I wish I prayed. Okay.

[00:12:09]Is that okay? Yeah, I don't know.

[00:12:17]I wish I had And then I wish I were past present unreal you want to present Is that okay? Yeah, that's okay.

[00:12:43]I want to know.

[00:12:46]Okay.

[00:12:57]>> [snorts] [clears throat] >> Is she uh >> [laughter] >> Go ahead. Uh I wish I didn't eat raw meat. Yeah, I wish I didn't eat raw meat. [clears throat] I do want to know.

[00:13:20]Yeah, but I do, yeah.

[00:13:22]Oh, yeah.

[00:13:28]Yeah, that's a good idea.

[00:13:30]>> [laughter] >> Like I don't know what you would tell me to do with it. Yeah, I want to know what Yeah, we're talking about this angry situation in the present. Of course.

[00:13:40]I wish I didn't love you. I wish I didn't love you.

[00:13:44]>> Which means that I love you. Which means I love you, mother.

[00:13:47]Okay.

[00:13:53]I wish I didn't call you again and Yeah, I wish I didn't call you again and again. Yeah. They got to be So, I wish Wishing bus over there. I didn't call you again and again.

[00:14:11]That's in the past. I didn't call you.

[00:14:13]Wishing bus over there, mother. I don't know what you wish. No, I didn't call you. Sorry. I didn't call you again and again.

[00:14:22]Never again. I wish I didn't call you.

[00:14:25]Call wish got to be there.

[00:14:26]I don't know what you That's my bad. Yeah, I Right, it's okay. Is that okay? Yeah, that's okay.

[00:14:36]I'm pretty good. All right. So, I don't know what you mean.

[00:14:47]I wish I didn't think about you now and then. Okay, I wish I didn't think about you now and then or I wish I didn't think about you again and again, right?

[00:15:02]The problem is I do.

[00:15:05]>> [laughter] >> Interesting. Okay, that's a beautiful.

[00:15:08]All right.

[00:15:10]The past you don't know. Never again.

[00:15:12]Meaning you don't know present. Present.

[00:15:13]Yeah. Negative or positive to go model positive negative to go model. Yeah.

[00:15:18]Uh unreal to go model.

[00:15:20]Never again. And then the model with the past perfect tense when we lost them.

[00:15:24]Okay.

[00:15:28]Yeah, yeah, of course.

[00:15:41]Yeah, that's right. For example, I wish I had been Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[00:15:53]I wish I had been in the United States of America. Well, I wish I had been.

[00:16:09]I wish I had been.

[00:16:11]I wish I had been, right? I wish I had been rich. But, let's say I was not rich, yeah.

[00:16:22]Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:16:24]No, no, no.

[00:16:27]Yeah, yeah.

[00:16:34]Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:16:42]Yeah, yeah.

[00:16:44]Yeah. I wish I had been. Mhm.

[00:16:46]>> [clears throat] >> Right? I wish I had been rich. I wish I had been rich.

[00:16:51]Again, I was not rich. rich.

[00:16:55]Yeah, yeah. Okay, interesting.

[00:16:59]I wish I had bought a car. I wish I had bought a car means I didn't buy a car. I didn't buy a car.

[00:17:08]Yeah, yeah.

[00:17:09]I wish I had bought a car because it was cheap that time. Yeah, it was. I used to be honest. Yeah. Yeah, of course. I wish I had bought a car. Okay. Let me say Yeah.

[00:17:27]I wish I wish I had studied engineering.

[00:17:29]I wish I had studied engineering.

[00:17:34]Yeah, I did it.

[00:17:37]I wish I had studied engineering.

[00:17:52]I wish I hadn't been. Say I wish I hadn't been. I wish I hadn't been. I wish I hadn't been yet.

[00:17:58]I wish I hadn't been.

[00:18:00]I wish I hadn't been with you below. I wish I hadn't been with you.

[00:18:06]I wish I hadn't been with you. The right interesting.

[00:18:16]I wish I hadn't.

[00:18:21]I wish I hadn't bought a house. I wish I hadn't bought a house. Yeah. Right, yes or no? Yes.

[00:18:30]I wish I hadn't called you. I wish I hadn't called you.

[00:18:36]I wish I hadn't called you. I wish I hadn't called you. I wish I hadn't called you. Interesting.

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