| Do you remember how the character said, |
| I want to start a new gym soon. |
| そろそろ、新しいジムを はじめたいです。 |
| そろそろ、新しいジムを はじめたいです。 |
| This sentence follows the pattern here |
| Let's look at how this pattern is constructed. |
| This pattern is the structure that all of our examples will follow. |
| Verb ます-stem + たいです |
| Verb-masu stem + tai desu |
| I want to [verb] |
| This pattern is used when you want to say that you want to do something. You start with a verb in its ます-stem form — that means you take the verb in its polite ます-form and remove the ます. Then you add たいです. The part たい turns the verb into an expression of desire, and です makes it polite. This is a very natural way to talk about what you want to do in Japanese. |
| Let’s see how the line from the dialogue uses the pattern. |
| そろそろ、新しいジムを はじめたいです。 |
| In this sentence: |
| そろそろ means "soon" or "it’s about time." It sets the feeling that the speaker thinks now is a good time. |
| 新しいジム means "a new gym." 新しい (atarashii) is the adjective for "new," and ジム (jimu) means "gym." |
| を is the object-marking particle, showing that the gym is the thing the speaker wants to start. |
| はじめたいです follows our sentence pattern. The verb is はじめます (hajimemasu), which means "to start." We drop the ます to get the ます-stem, which is はじめ. Then we add たいです to say "want to start." |
| So, そろそろ、新しいジムを はじめたいです means "I want to start a new gym soon." |
| The たいです (-tai desu) ending is used for when someone wants to do something. If someone does NOT want to do something, they use the form たくないです (-takunai desu). たくない is the negative form of たい, and uses です the same way. |
| For example, let's look at this other sentence from the dialogue. |
| でも おしえたくないです。 |
| Demo oshietakunai desu. |
| But I don't want to tell you. |
| Here, おしえたくない (oshietakunai) means, DON'T want to tell. |
| Now let's look at some speaking examples. |
| パソコンを 買いたいです｡ (Pasokon o kaitai desu.) |
| I want to buy a computer. |
| Can you see how the pattern applies here? |
| Let's break it down: |
| Here, パソコン is the object — it means “computer.” It’s marked by the particle を, which shows what the action is being done to. Together, パソコンを means “a computer (as the thing you want to do something with).” |
| Next, the verb is 買います, meaning “to buy.” To form this sentence pattern, we remove the ます to get the verb stem: 買い. Then we add たいです, which expresses desire. |
| So: |
| 買います (kaimasu) becomes 買い (kai) plus たいです (tai desu), which equals 買いたいです (kaitai desu). |
| Here, 買い (kai) is the verb stem, and たいです (tai desu) marks it as something the speaker wants to do. So the full phrase 買いたいです means “(I) want to buy.” |
| That’s how パソコンを 買いたいです fits the pattern Verb ます-stem + たいです. |
| Let's try one more, |
| しごとを ふやしたくないです｡ (Shigoto o fuyashitakunai desu.) |
| I don’t want to increase my work. |
| しごとを ふやしたくないです｡ (Shigoto o fuyashitakunai desu.) |
| I don’t want to increase my work. |
| Another one. |
| まだ かえりたくないです｡ (Mada kaeritakunai desu.) |
| I don’t want to go home yet. |
| まだ かえりたくないです｡ (Mada kaeritakunai desu.) |
| I don’t want to go home yet. |
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