Usage examples of "Querer" in Spanish with translation to English

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"Menéame" resulta querer decir "menéame". "Menéame" turns out to mean "wiggle me."
Sin querer, revivió a su suegra. He carelessly revived his mother-in-law.
El juez se rió sin querer. The judge laughed in spite of himself.
Alguien puede ofender las sensibilidades de un artista, pero nadie parece querer apoyar financieramente a los artistas. Anyone can offend an artist's sensibilities, but no one seems to wish to support artists financially.
No soy nada. Nunca seré nada. No puedo querer ser nada. Aparte de eso, tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo. I am nothing. I shall never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world.
Cristóbal Colón empezó a llevar su famoso sombrero al revés cuando todavía iba al colegio, y sus profesores a menudo le castigaban por no querer quitárselo en clase. Christopher Columbus started wearing his famous hat back when he was still a schoolboy, and was often punished by his teachers for refusing to take it off in class.
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