I can say what I want and don't want to do on the weekend and on a trip, and ask the other person about it.
What you want to do: -たいです
What you want to do: -たいです
This lesson: how to say what you want to do on the weekend, on vacation, or tonight.
The form: the verb drops ます, and たいです takes its place: のみます → のみたいです, いきます → いきたいです.
After that, たい behaves like the い-adjectives of the last lessons: the negative is たくないです, the past たかったです, the past negative たくなかったです.
The object of the verb takes を: すしをたべたいです. In conversation you'll also hear が, but in this course's exercises, write を.
Who you say it about: yourself, and the other person in a question: なにをしたいですか. English “Tanaka-san wants to go” is normal, but Japanese doesn't state someone else's wishes like this: instead of “Tanaka-san wants to…”, say what he does.
どこか is “somewhere, anywhere”, なにか is “something, anything”: どこかへいきたいです.
Common mistakes:
• NOT のみますたいです → のみたいです.
• NOT いきたいじゃないです → いきたくないです.
• NOT 田中（たなか）さんはうみへいきたいです — don't say this about someone else.
I want to: たいです
ます goes, たい comes in; after that, たい changes like an い-adjective.
| What you say | いきます | みます |
|---|---|---|
| I want to | いきたいです | みたいです |
| I don't want to | いきたくないです | みたくないです |
| I wanted to | いきたかったです | みたかったです |
| I didn't want to | いきたくなかったです | みたくなかったです |
Lesson notes
What you want to do: -たいです
This lesson: how to say what you want to do on the weekend, on vacation, or tonight.
The form: the verb drops ます, and たいです takes its place: のみます → のみたいです, いきます → いきたいです.
After that, たい behaves like the い-adjectives of the last lessons: the negative is たくないです, the past たかったです, the past negative たくなかったです.
The object of the verb takes を: すしをたべたいです. In conversation you'll also hear が, but in this course's exercises, write を.
Who you say it about: yourself, and the other person in a question: なにをしたいですか. English “Tanaka-san wants to go” is normal, but Japanese doesn't state someone else's wishes like this: instead of “Tanaka-san wants to…”, say what he does.
どこか is “somewhere, anywhere”, なにか is “something, anything”: どこかへいきたいです.
Common mistakes:
• NOT のみますたいです → のみたいです.
• NOT いきたいじゃないです → いきたくないです.
• NOT 田中（たなか）さんはうみへいきたいです — don't say this about someone else.