final wishes
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- noun
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últimos deseos
- We didn't know any of his final wishes and were left to sort it all out as his illness (cancer, 3rd time) progressed.
- know her final wishes
Examples
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Rigdol was deeply affected by his father's untimely death and devastated by his own helplessness in fulfilling his father's final wish.
Blog text (2) -
Wasn't it her final wish that they be reconciled?
Fiction book (1997) -
- I say we respect his final wish.
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What matters is it was her final wish.
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I say, we just let him turn, and then give him his final wish.
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My final wish is I wanna go back to the morning my dad found you.
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Please, Mr. Kiefer, we are talking about your mother's final wishes.
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We gathered to honor her final wishes during the memorial service.
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It was important to her family to respect his final wishes after he passed away.
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As her executor, I made sure to fulfill her final wishes as detailed in the will.
How Final
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person's last requests or desires' is directly derivable from combining 'final' (last, concluding) with 'wishes' (desires or requests). This simple adjective + noun composition follows standard, cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Final wishes comes from the image of a person on their deathbed saying their final wishes, the last things they want. Because people often put these requests in a will or tell family about them, final wishes now means 'a person's last requests or desires', especially about what should happen after they die.