I want to go to the toilet

English

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Phrase

I want to go to the toilet

1. Indicates that the speaker feels the urge to go the toilet.

Usage notes

• Although it may imply the question "Where might I find the toilet?" it is more polite to ask the question than (in most adult social settings) to bluntly say you need to go, and there are more polite ways of phrasing that need, with variations depending on the situation (e.g. in a moving car, "I'd like to take a toilet-stop, if that is convenient").

Translations

I want to go to the toilet

• Arabic: أُرِيد اَلذِّهَاب إِلَى اَلْمِرْحَاض (ʔurīd aḏ-ḏihāb ʔilā l-mirḥāḍ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我想上個廁所／我想上个厕所 (wǒ xiǎng shàng ge cèsuǒ)

• Czech: chci jít na záchod
• Dutch: ik moet naar het toilet, ik moet naar de wc
• Finnish: haluan mennä vessaan
• French: j’ai envie d’aller aux toilettes
• Galician: quero ir ao baño
• German: ich muss zur Toilette gehen
• Hungarian: vécére kell mennem, ki kell mennem a vécére, ki kell mennem, használhatom a mellékhelyiséget?, használhatom a mosdót?
• Italian: ho bisogno di andare al gabinetto
• Japanese: トイレに行きたいです (toire ni ikitai desu)
• Korean: 화장실에 가고 싶습니다 (hwajangsir-e gago sipseumnida)
• Low German:

  German Low German: ik mutt to de Toilett gahn

• Luxembourgish: ech wëll op d'Toilette goen
• Malay: saya mahu pergi ke tandas
• Polish: muszę korzystać z łazienki
• Portuguese: quero ir ao banheiro
• Russian: мне ну́жно в туале́т (mne núžno v tualét)
• Spanish: quiero ir al baño
• Swahili: nataka kwenda msalani
• Turkish: tuvalete gitmek istiyorum
• Vietnamese: tôi muốn đi nhà vê sinh