like to

[laɪk.tə]

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.37 in modern English

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adv

"I like to (have) died when I saw you in that getup."
"We like to didn't make it through the drawbridge."
"And the wall facing the hall was almost all glass. It looked more like a store display window than a room. Rob didn't know about all this until a week later when she was back on her ward; but when she told him, he like to died."

Re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning "likely") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)

would have liked to

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How do you pronounce like to?

The recorded pronunciation is [laɪk.tə].

What does like to mean?

nearly; almost

Where does like to come from?

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