たいWant to do

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  Jake

  want to

  Structure

  • Verb[stem] + たい

  [たい belongs to a group of personal adjectives that can only be used to describe speaker’s/writer’s wishes/desires. If you want to describe someone’s wish/desire you have to use 「verb[stem]+たがる」 construction or indirect speech 「verb[stem]+たいと思う」]

  Object of desire can either take particle を or が.

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  Marcus

  Can I ask a question about this?

  Okay, I’ve got that the grammar is Verb[stem] + たい
  So the stem of 答える is こたえ, and then you add たい.
  And I understand that you then need to put that in the past.
  What I don’t understand is how たい becomes たかった for the past.
  Is たい a verb? An adjective? And what rule is it following here?
  Any help much appreciated!

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  mrnoone

  Hey

  It is so called auxiliary (suffix attached to verbs) adjective. That is why it conjugates like one.

  Another example is verb[stem] + やすい

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  In Japanese nomenclature, it is called 助動詞（じょどうし） - which is translated as “auxiliary verb”. But not all of those suffixes (たい for example ) conjugate like verbs so it might be misleading.

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  Marcus

  I see! Thank you so much!

  So the auxiliary adjective たい conjugates just like any い-adjective! Got it! Thank you so much!

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  mrnoone

  Yes, that is right!

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  drmoore718

  I think it would be helpful to have the past negative as a reference in the structure for this lesson.

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  mrnoone

  Hey

  The past negative conjugation has been added

  Cheers,

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  Pep95

  In the structure box, it is shown that the polite alternative for たくない is たくありません, but only for たくない.

  I know it sounds weird, but is this the same for たくなかった→たくありませんでした?

  Maybe even for these? (Honestly doubt it but who knows.)
  たかった→たくありました
  たい→たくあります.

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  mrnoone

  @Pep95

  It simply conjugates like いadjective

  So:
  Polite non-past: たいです
  Polite past: たかったです
  Negative polite: たくないです/たくありません
  Negative polite past: たくなかったです/たくありませんでした

  are the allowed ones

  I hope it helps,
  Cheers

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  testing

  I entered なりたい, and it wants me to type なら instead - but the audio is なりたい. Posting in the forum so I can provide a screenshot:
  

  And now, 2 hours later, I got it again, but this time it’s working correctly?
  

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  mrnoone

  @testing
  I have informed the technical part of the team, the answers seem to be correct (なりたい)

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  MikkaT

  Hi, i’m sorry for asking a lot of questions, but I am really trying to understand how the grammar points are used.
  In this box is says that it should be used with を or が.
  But the examples never use が and even on the examples sentences page only a few use を.
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  IcyIceBear

  Don’t worry about asking questions that’s what these grammar point forums are for (⁠◠⁠ᴥ⁠◕⁠ʋ⁠)

  First, it doesn’t say that it should be used with を or が but rather able to use either. When marking an object of desire. So if the sentence doesn’t have that, then there’s nothing to mark. “I wanted to become a police officer” to become なる is always used with に, so no を or が in the なりたい sentences. For the 虫は食べたくない , the は is used for negative contrast instead. The sentence would still work with either を or が.

  プロの歌手と歌いたい, again no object of desire. “I want to sing with a pro singer.” If it was この歌(を/が)歌いたい you would use either marker, with が having more emphasis
  
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  MikkaT

  thanks for the explanation.

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  justin.adamson
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  IcyIceBear

  Welcome to the community! You kinda answered your own question.