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Lesson 9: I want to drink cola.
In this lesson, you will learn how to tell someone that you want to do something. Recall that present tense verbs have the -ます ending. In order to change these to the 'want to' ending, drop the -ます and replace it with -たい. Examples:
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| Examples: こうえんに いきます。 がっこうに いきます。
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I will go to the park. I go to school. |
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Now for one more twist. When you use たい with verbs that take を, you can also change the を to が for emphasis if you want.
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I eat apples. I want to eat an apple. I want to eat an apple. |
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| In the above example, the second sentence just means that you want to eat apples. The third sentence means that you want to eat apples as opposed to something else. It's not really that important of a difference so you can stick with just を if you're more comfortable with it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| -ます | positive present/future verb tense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| -たい | 'want to' verb ending | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| てがみ | letter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ほん | book | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| こうえん | park | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| がっこう | school | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| コーラ | cola | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| を | object marker particle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| に |
particle meaning 'to' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| が | emphatic object marker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||