- Arabic:لَيْتَ (ar)(layta),تَمَنَّى(tamannā) (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows)
- Catalan:tant de bo (ca),si (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:但願 /但愿 (zh)(dànyuàn)
- Dutch:was het maar zo dat, or use auxiliaryhebben (nl) with inversion andmaar (nl) (Had ikmaar veel geld. – If only I had lots of money!)
- Finnish:totta kai (fi),ilman muuta (fi)
- French:si seulement (fr),j’aurais aimé que (a sentence in subjunctive mood follows)
- German:wenn auch,wenn doch nur
- Hebrew:הַלְוַאי(halevái),כֵּן יְהִי רָצוֹן(ken yehí ratzón)
- Italian:magari (it),mi piacerebbe
- Japanese:(conditional sentence + ii noni (nā))-ばいいのになあ(-ba ii noni nā),-らいいのになあ(-ra ii noni nā),-ならいいのになあ(-nara ii noni nā),-よいものを(yoi mono o)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish:xwezî (ku)
- Malay:sekira,semoga
- Norwegian:skulle ønske det,skulle ønske jeg var
- Persian:کاش (fa)(kâš),کاشکی (fa)(kâški)(informal),ای کاش(ey kâš)(formal)
- Polish:jeśli by,jeśliby,o ile (pl),gdyby tylko
- Portuguese:oxalá (pt),quem me dera
- Russian:хоте́лось бы(xotélosʹ by),е́сли бы то́лько(jésli by tólʹko),е́сли бы (ru)(jésli by)
- Slovene:če bi le
- Spanish:ojalá (es),si (es),si tan solo,si tan siquiera
- Turkish:keşke (tr)
- Ukrainian:я́кби (uk)(jákby)
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