Lesson 21 of 24
What Do You Want to Do?
about 14 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Say what you want to do, what you want, and why you are going somewhere.
Words this lesson teaches
- ほしい
- wanted, desired
- れんしゅうします
- practises
- かざります
- decorates
- じゅんびします
- prepares, gets ready
- かります
- borrows
- むかえます
- welcomes, meets
- ラベルメーカー
- label maker
- たんとうカード
- task card
- かいもの
- shopping
What it explains
Vたいです — want to do
Take the ます form, drop ます, add たいです: かざります → かざりたいです. The result behaves as an い adjective, so the negative is かざりたくないです and the past is かざりたかったです. Note it describes your own wants: saying あきさんは かざりたいです asserts what is inside someone else's head, which Japanese is careful about.
Nが ほしいです — want a thing
For objects rather than actions: ラベルメーカーが ほしいです. ほしい is an adjective, so the thing wanted takes が, exactly as with すき. Negative ほしくないです. The pair is worth keeping straight — たい for verbs, ほしい for nouns.
Vに 行きます — going in order to
Drop ます and add に いきます: かいます → かいに いきます, going to buy. This に is the destination particle doing a second job, marking the purpose of the trip rather than its endpoint. Both can appear: スーパーに かいに いきます.
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.
