envier

Quand elle entendit ça, elle eut envie de pleurer.
When she heard that, she felt like crying.
Il fallait bien obéir, qu'elle en eût envie ou non.
She was forced to obey him, whether she liked it or not.
Je ne pense pas que j'en ai vraiment eut envie.
Don't think I was ever really ready.
Il eut envie de lui avouer qu'il n'avait plus rien.
For a moment, he contemplated admitting his impoverishment.
Elle eut envie de danser.
She felt like dancing.
Saheeli lui avait demandé de prendre part à la cérémonie d’inauguration, mais c’était la dernière chose dont Rashmi eût envie.
Saheeli had asked her to be part of the dedication ceremony, but that was the last thing Rashmi wanted.
Il est compréhensible que Lewis Carroll eut envie d’écrire sous un autre nom : son père, son grand-père et son arrière-grand-père s’appelaient Charles Dodgson.
Still, we can understand why Carroll would want to write under a different name: his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all called Charles Dodgson.
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