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Wanting to say with 〜たい

Grammar Explanation: Wanting to do with 〜たい

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Watching Chiya play chess, Cocoa tries to help.

ココア:
「千夜(ちや)ちゃんそこでチェストだよ！」
“Chiya, this is where you say “chest”!”
千夜(ちや):
「チェックメイトって言(い)いたいの？」
“Do you want to say 'checkmate'?”

Key Points

1言(い)いたい asks whether Chiya wants to say the phrase
  • 言(い)う changes to the stem 言(い)い before たい.
2チェックメイトって marks the quoted words
  • って is the casual quotation marker.
3チェスト is Cocoa’s mistaken chess term
  • Chiya’s next line replaces Cocoa’s チェスト with チェックメイト, which is the phrase Cocoa meant.

Vocabulary

(To say)

言(い)う means to say or tell. It can also mean to call something by a particular name.

See Also

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