crave

[US]/kreɪv/
[UK]/kreɪv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. kuomba kwa bidii; kutaka sana
vi. kuwa na hamu kali; kuomba kwa bidii
Word Forms
Past Participlecraved
Past Tensecraved
Present Participlecraving
Third Person Singularcraves
Pluralcraves

Phrases & Collocations

crave for

kutaka sana

deep craving

hamu kuu

crave attention

kutaka ridhaa

crave sweets

kutaka pipi

intense craving

hamu kali

Example Sentences

crave a person's pardon

kutaka samahani kutoka kwa mtu

I must crave your indulgence.

Lazima nikutane na uvumbe wako.

The attorney craved the court's indulgence.

Mawakili alitaka uvumbe wa mahakama.

Many young children crave attention.

Watoto wengi wadogo wanataka uangamuzi.

May I crave your attention?

Je, naweza kuomba uangamuzi wako?

What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.

Alichokitaka hakikuwa starehe wala lugha ya juu ya uchoraji wa historia, lakini ukweli unaoweza kuelewa, unaoonekana, maarufu, unaoweza kuigusa na kurudia.

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