hanamaru
Say what you want to do
Says what you yourself want to do.
JLPTN5
verb stem + たい~ stem + tai
I want to do [something]
Example Sentences
I want to eat curry
I want to ride a yacht
Drop ます from the polite form (食べます → 食べ) and add たい to express your own wish to do something. It conjugates like an い-adjective, so the past becomes たかった and the negative たくない. Use it for yourself, not to state someone else's desire as a fact.
Conjugation
食べる→食べたい
ichidan
飲む→飲みたい
godan
行く→行きたい
godan
する→したい
irregular
Tips and Common Traps
Hana· Key point
Use たい to open up conversations — 何が食べたい？ (What do you want to eat?) is one of the most useful questions you'll learn.
