Want you to eat my rice ball with 〜てほしい
Grammar Explanation: Want you do to something with 〜てほしい
As they start a shogi game after school, Ayumu hears Urushi’s stomach growl. She pretends there wasn’t a sound, but Ayumu realizes she’s hiding that she’s hungry. If he can avoid embarrassing her, Ayumu has the solution in his school bag.
- 歩:
- 「オレのおにぎりを… センパイに食べてほしい…！！」
- “I want her to eat my rice ball.”
Key Points
食べてほしい means I want someone to eat it
〜てほしい expresses what the speaker wants another person to do.
Ayumu is not thinking he wants to eat the rice ball himself, but that he wants Urushi to eat it.
センパイに marks the person Ayumu wants to act
With 〜てほしい, the person you want to do the action can be marked by に.
オレのおにぎりを is the object of 食べる
The を marks オレのおにぎり as the thing to be eaten.