English-Finnish translations for yearn

• kaivata
• häikäillä
  Hän ei häikäile pyrkiessään rikastumaan.
• haikailla
  Vanhempi sukupolvi ja keski-ikäiset kansalaiset voivat todella haikailla vanhan valuutan perään, mutta nuorempi sukupolvi pitää euroa omana valuuttanaan. The older and middle generations may indeed yearn wistfully for the old currencies, but the younger generation will regard the euro as their currency.
• ikävöidä

Definition of yearn

• To long, have a strong desire (for something
• To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
• To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone
• To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn
• To pain; to grieve; to vex
• To curdle, as milk
• Yearning;

Examples

• All I yearn for is a simple life.

Related words

• yearning
• yearningly
• yearn for
• yearning for
• yearning for death