Journal 14 Expressing Desires

Take a verb a lop off the います　And replace it with たい　To get “I want to do this”

たべます　I eat
およぎます　I swim
ねます　I go to sleep
いきます　I go

たべたい　I want to eat
およぎたい　I want to swim
ねたい　I want to go to sleep
いきたい　I want to go

Technically です　Should follow these to make a sentence, And if you want to be more polite, You can, but it is not necessary

You can conjugate たい　In the exact same way you can conjugate adjectives so…

たべたかった　I wanted to eat
およぎたかった　I wanted to swim
ねたくない　I don’t want to go to sleep
いきたくない　I don’t wan to go
したくなかった　I didn’t want to do
かえりたくなかった　I didn’t want to go home

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~ by The Decree of Chaos on December 7, 2008.