Meaning

1 senses

  1. To crave, want or desire.

    If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.

    verlangen, begehren

    хотетьxotetʹ, жаждатьžaždatʹ

    дуже хотітиduže xotity, палко бажатиpalko bažaty, жадатиžadaty

    desire strongly or persistently

Examples

5 sentences

  1. I never hanker for a cheeseburger.

    ruУ меня никогда не бывает желания съесть чизбургер. — Wezel

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  2. I began to hanker after eating an authentic pretzel.

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  3. I hankered to get out of the city for a weekend.

    deIch sehne mich danach, für ein Wochenende aus der Stadt rauszukommen. — Nachtiris

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  4. After I eat my shrimp and grits, I hanker after apple pie and sweet tea.

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  5. I'm hankering after a hamburger and fries but I don't have a grill and it's not safe to go out to eat.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

With a secondary frequentative suffix -er, ultimately pointing to Proto-Germanic *hankōną,

With a secondary frequentative suffix -er, ultimately pointing to Proto-Germanic *hankōną, an iterative to *hanhaną (“to hang”). Related to Dutch hunkeren (“to crave”), which continues the zero-grade iterative.

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Forms

hankers, hankering, hankered, hankered
Base formhanker · to hanker
3rd person singularhankers
Present participlehankering
Past simplehankered
Past participlehankered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhanker
he, she, ithankers

Past simpleLesson

all personshankered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hankered
he, she, ithas hankered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hanker

Synonyms

3 synonyms
covet
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedhankering
Derivedhankerer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hangulhanjahankhaphazardC2haplessC2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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