🇬🇧🇪🇸 yearn - anhelar : English Lesson

Meaning of "yearn" ("anhelar"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

To yearn means to really, really want something with all your heart, especially when you can’t have it easily or have to wait a long time for it.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I yearn to sleep in, but my alarm clock yearns to ruin my life at 6 a.m.

I yearn for more cookies, but the cookie jar yearns to be left alone.

Grandpa yearns for the good old days, but I just yearn for better Wi‑Fi.

I yearn to be tidy, but my room yearns to remain a natural disaster zone.

The pizza slice on my plate yearns to be eaten, and honestly, I yearn to help it fulfill its destiny.

At dusk she stood by the broken gate and yearned for the old piano inside. She yearned to hear one warm chord, yearned to press a key, yearned to feel music in her hands, yearned to share it. Her breath fogged the window. When a neighbor unlocked the gate, she stepped in, pressed a key, and wept with quiet joy.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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