Japanese N4
Lesson 3 of 24
Getting It Checked
about 12 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Say that you had someone do something for you.
- Say what you want, and what you want someone else to do.
Words this lesson teaches
- もらいます
- receives; has someone do
- ほしい
- wanted, desired
- たのみます
- asks, requests
- プリント
- a handout
- しめきり
- the deadline
- ぶん
- a sentence
- はんたい
- the opposite
- みなおします
- looks over again, reviews
What it explains
〜てもらう: you arranged it, they did it
The person who acts takes に, and the sentence belongs to the person who asked. 「はるさんに みてもらいました」 puts you at the centre of the sentence even though Haru did the reading. This is the direction English speakers drop most often, and dropping it makes you sound like a bystander to your own arrangements.
ほしい wants a thing; 〜てほしい wants a person to act
「じかんが ほしいです」 — I want time, and the thing wanted takes が. 「みてほしいです」 — I want you to look, and the person takes に. Note that ほしい is an adjective, not a verb: it conjugates like たかい, so the negative is ほしくないです.
The scene itself is in the app.
Lesson one of this track is free to read in full. From lesson two on, the story, the audio and the review are part of a free account.