8. Base 2 + takunai / takunai desu

Lesson 8
Base 2 + takunai / takunai desu

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These are used to show the opposite of tai and tai desu covered in the last lesson: that you don't want to do something. Add desu to make it polite. Let's make the examples in Lesson 7 negative. We'll make the first two plain:

• Watakushi wa kasa o kaitakunai. (I don't want to buy an umbrella.)
• Kodomotachi wa asobitakunai. (The children don't want to play.)

Now let's make the next two polite:

• Bob wa tempura o tabetakunai desu. (Bob doesn't want to eat tempura.)
• Miki wa sono eiga o mitakunai desu. (Miki doesn't want to see that movie.)

Simple enough, right? Two of these examples use yodan verbs, and two use ichidan. Can you still tell them apart?