The translation given is “Tom wants us to wait.”
Does “esperions” mean to wait? I thought it meant “hope”.
Per French wiktionary, espérer can mean “to wait” in the sense of “wait for someone.”
This isn’t too surprising, as its Spanish/Portuguese cognate, esperar, can mean both “to hope” and “to wait.”
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Native French here. Please never use this verb to mean “to wait”.
It should indeed be Tom veut que nous attendions.
Probably 1% will understand “espérer” as “to wait”. It never appears in news, books, TV, movies nor anywhere else beside wherever this was created.
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Thank you, Kalzem. I wish they would give you or someone like you authority to change some of these sentences as people raise these issues!