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Lesson 20: I wanted to swim.
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This lesson builds on what we've learned about expressing wants. Recall from Lesson 9 that when you say you want to do something you take the masu off of the masu form of the verb and replace it with tai. Example: Watashi wa kouen ni ikimasu. - I go to the park. Next please recall Lesson 16 and Lesson 17. Here we learned about making the negative and past forms of i adjectives. To make a negative i adjective you take off the last i and replace it with kunai. To make a past form i adjective you take of the last i and replace it with katta. The negative and past forms of the tai verbs are made the same way that the i adjective forms are. To make the negative form, drop the final i and add kunai. To make the past form drop the final i and add katta. To make the negative past form, drop the final i and add kunakatta. Examples:
To make these sentences more polite, you can add desu to the end of them. Examples:
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