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Wanting to bake bread again with 〜たい

Grammar Explanation: Wanting to do with 〜たい

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Cocoa and Chiya pass by a bakery. Cocoa stops to admire the bread in the window.

ココア:
「実家(じっか)がベーカリーでよく作(つく)ってたんだ」
“My family runs a bakery, so I used to bake bread all the time.”
「また作(つく)りたいなぁ」
“I want to make it again.”
千夜(ちや):
「お手製(てせい)なの？すごい！」
“You made these yourself? Amazing!”

Key Points

1作(つく)りたい expresses Cocoa’s desire to make bread again
  • 作(つく)る changes to the stem 作(つく)り before たい.
2The object is omitted
  • The memory of baking at home supplies bread as the thing Cocoa wants to make.
3また and なぁ make the wish reflective
  • また means “again”, and the drawn-out なぁ lets Cocoa linger on the desire.
4作(つく)ってたんだ expands to 作(つく)っていたのだ
  • てた contracts ていた and describes Cocoa’s past habit of baking. んだ supplies that history as an explanation.
5お手製(てせい)なの？ asks whether the bread is homemade
  • The explanatory の turns Chiya’s surprised realization into a question before すごい！ gives her reaction.

Vocabulary

(To make)

作(つく)る means to create or prepare something.

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