"たい" meaning in Japanese

See たい in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Particle

Forms: tai [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-pos|particle}} たい • (tai)
  1. (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki) sentence-ending particle indicating emphasis Related terms: ばい, For pronunciation and definitions of たい – see the following entry: 田井, For pronunciation and definitions of たい – see the following entry: 田居
    Sense id: en-たい-ja-particle-JqeepoX0 Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Saga Japanese, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese particles, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 53 31 16 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 73 14 13 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 76 14 10 Disambiguation of Japanese particles: 67 19 14 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 38 35 27 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 72 19 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 15 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Suffix

IPA: [ta̠i]
Etymology: From たし (-tashi), generally regarded as a shift from Old Japanese いたし (itasi, “painful”), modern 痛い (itai). Appears as a verbal suffix from at least The Tale of the Heike completed before 1330. Replaces previous volitional or desiderative suffix まほし (mahoshi). Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|いたし||painful|tr=itasi}} Old Japanese いたし (itasi, “painful”), {{ja-r|まほし}} まほし (mahoshi) Head templates: {{ja-pos|suffix|type=i}} たい • (-tai) -i (adverbial たく (-taku)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=く|attributive=い|conditional=ければ|conjunctive=くて|continuative=く|degree=さ|formal=い です|formal_negative=く ない です|formal_negative_past=く なかった です|formal_past=かった です|hypothetical=けれ|imperative=かれ|imperfective=かろ|informal_negative=く ない|informal_negative_past=く なかった|informal_past=かった|kana=|lemma=た|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}}, {{ja-conj-bungo|た|adj-ku}} Forms: -tai [romanization], たく [adverbial], no-table-tags [table-tags], たかろ [imperfective, stem], takaro [imperfective, stem], たく [continuative, stem], taku [continuative, stem], たい [stem, terminative], tai [stem, terminative], たい [attributive, stem], tai [attributive, stem], たけれ [hypothetical, stem], takere [hypothetical, stem], たかれ [imperative, stem], takare [imperative, stem], たくない [informal, negative], taku nai [informal, negative], たかった [informal, past], takatta [informal, past], たくなかった [informal, negative, past], taku nakatta [informal, negative, past], たいです [formal], tai desu [formal], たくないです [formal, negative], taku nai desu [formal, negative], たかったです [formal, past], takatta desu [formal, past], たくなかったです [formal, negative, past], taku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], たくて [conjunctive], takute [conjunctive], たければ [conditional], takereba [conditional], たかったら [conditional, past], takattara [conditional, past], たかろう [volitional], takarō [volitional], たく [adverbial], taku [adverbial], たさ [noun-from-adj], tasa [noun-from-adj], no-table-tags [table-tags], たく [irrealis, stem], たから [irrealis, stem], taku [irrealis, stem], takara [irrealis, stem], たく [continuative, stem], たかり [continuative, stem], taku [continuative, stem], takari [continuative, stem], たし [stem, terminative], tasi [stem, terminative], たき [attributive, stem], たかる [attributive, stem], taki [attributive, stem], takaru [attributive, stem], たけれ [realis, stem], takere [realis, stem], たかれ [imperative, stem], takare [imperative, stem], たからず [negative], takarazu [negative], たけれど [contrastive], takeredo [contrastive], たければ [causative], takereba [causative], たくば [conditional], takuba [conditional], たかりき [past], takariki [past], たかりけり [past], takarikeri [past], たく [adverbial], taku [adverbial]
  1. Used to form the desiderative of verbs: want (to do); hope (to do) Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-たい-ja-suffix-Kun9QVrT Categories (other): Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 56 44 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant script codes: 57 43 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 38 35 27
  2. (only with verb ある, である and honorifics) Expressing a wish of the speaker: I hope that; I wish that Tags: morpheme
    Sense id: en-たい-ja-suffix-Rolh-h7Y Categories (other): Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 38 35 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: たがる (tagaru)
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "tagaru",
      "word": "たがる"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "いたし",
        "4": "",
        "5": "painful",
        "tr": "itasi"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese いたし (itasi, “painful”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "まほし"
      },
      "expansion": "まほし (mahoshi)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From たし (-tashi), generally regarded as a shift from Old Japanese いたし (itasi, “painful”), modern 痛い (itai). Appears as a verbal suffix from at least The Tale of the Heike completed before 1330. Replaces previous volitional or desiderative suffix まほし (mahoshi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "roman": "-taku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-conj-bungo",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たから",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takari",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たし",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tasi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかる",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takaru",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たからず",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takarazu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たけれど",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takeredo",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくば",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takuba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかりき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takariki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかりけり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takarikeri",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "suffix",
        "type": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "たい • (-tai) -i (adverbial たく (-taku))",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "た",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "た",
        "2": "adj-ku"
      },
      "name": "ja-conj-bungo"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "57 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 35 27",
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          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
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              7,
              14
            ]
          ],
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              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "english": "If you want to read it, I can lend it to you.",
          "roman": "yomitai nara kasu yo",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "読",
              "よ"
            ],
            [
              "貸",
              "か"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "読みたいなら貸すよ",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
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              3,
              11
            ]
          ],
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              20,
              23
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          ],
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            [
              6,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He wants to gain other people's attention.",
          "roman": "kare wa chūmoku saretai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "彼",
              "かれ"
            ],
            [
              "注",
              "ちゅう"
            ],
            [
              "目",
              "もく"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "彼は注目されたい",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
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              12,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I want to eat ice cream.",
          "roman": "aisu ga tabetai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "食",
              "た"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "アイスが食べたい",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to form the desiderative of verbs: want (to do); hope (to do)"
      ],
      "id": "en-たい-ja-suffix-Kun9QVrT",
      "links": [
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ],
        [
          "hope",
          "hope"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 35 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
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        }
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        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
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          ],
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              45,
              48
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              16,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I wish in this world the honest people would not suffer losses.",
          "roman": "shōjikimono ga baka o minai yo no naka de aritai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "正",
              "しょう"
            ],
            [
              "直",
              "じき"
            ],
            [
              "者",
              "もの"
            ],
            [
              "見",
              "み"
            ],
            [
              "世",
              "よ"
            ],
            [
              "中",
              "なか"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "正直者がばかを見ない世の中でありたい",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Please see the appendix table.",
          "roman": "beppyō o sanshō saretai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "別",
              "べっ"
            ],
            [
              "表",
              "ぴょう"
            ],
            [
              "参",
              "さん"
            ],
            [
              "照",
              "しょう"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "別表を参照されたい",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expressing a wish of the speaker: I hope that; I wish that"
      ],
      "id": "en-たい-ja-suffix-Rolh-h7Y",
      "links": [
        [
          "ある",
          "ある#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "である",
          "である#Japanese"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(only with verb ある, である and honorifics) Expressing a wish of the speaker: I hope that; I wish that"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ta̠i]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[tsùkúꜜrù]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[tsùkúrítáꜜì]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[àsóbú]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[àsóbítáí]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[àsóbítáꜜì]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Daijirin",
    "The Tale of the Heike"
  ],
  "word": "たい"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "particle"
      },
      "expansion": "たい • (tai)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "particle",
  "redirects": [
    "田井",
    "田居"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Saga Japanese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 31 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 14 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 14 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 19 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese particles",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 35 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 19 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 15 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              8,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "roman": "sō desu tai",
          "text": "そうですたい",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sentence-ending particle indicating emphasis"
      ],
      "id": "en-たい-ja-particle-JqeepoX0",
      "links": [
        [
          "Shinmura, Izuru",
          "w:Shinmura Izuru"
        ],
        [
          "広辞苑",
          "w:ja:広辞苑"
        ],
        [
          "Tokyo",
          "w:Tokyo"
        ],
        [
          "Iwanami Shoten",
          "w:Iwanami Shoten"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Saga; Nagasaki; Saga; Nagasaki",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki) sentence-ending particle indicating emphasis"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ばい"
        },
        {
          "word": "For pronunciation and definitions of たい – see the following entry: 田井"
        },
        {
          "word": "For pronunciation and definitions of たい – see the following entry: 田居"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "たい"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with manual fragments",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese particles",
    "Japanese suffixes",
    "Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "tagaru",
      "word": "たがる"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "いたし",
        "4": "",
        "5": "painful",
        "tr": "itasi"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese いたし (itasi, “painful”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "まほし"
      },
      "expansion": "まほし (mahoshi)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From たし (-tashi), generally regarded as a shift from Old Japanese いたし (itasi, “painful”), modern 痛い (itai). Appears as a verbal suffix from at least The Tale of the Heike completed before 1330. Replaces previous volitional or desiderative suffix まほし (mahoshi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-tai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "roman": "-taku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-conj-bungo",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たから",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takari",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たし",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tasi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかる",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takaru",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たからず",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takarazu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たけれど",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takeredo",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たくば",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takuba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかりき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takariki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たかりけり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "takarikeri",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "たく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "suffix",
        "type": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "たい • (-tai) -i (adverbial たく (-taku))",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "た",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "た",
        "2": "adj-ku"
      },
      "name": "ja-conj-bungo"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "english": "If you want to read it, I can lend it to you.",
          "roman": "yomitai nara kasu yo",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "読",
              "よ"
            ],
            [
              "貸",
              "か"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "読みたいなら貸すよ",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "He wants to gain other people's attention.",
          "roman": "kare wa chūmoku saretai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "彼",
              "かれ"
            ],
            [
              "注",
              "ちゅう"
            ],
            [
              "目",
              "もく"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "彼は注目されたい",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              2,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              12,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I want to eat ice cream.",
          "roman": "aisu ga tabetai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "食",
              "た"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "アイスが食べたい",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used to form the desiderative of verbs: want (to do); hope (to do)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "want",
          "want"
        ],
        [
          "hope",
          "hope"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              45,
              48
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              16,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I wish in this world the honest people would not suffer losses.",
          "roman": "shōjikimono ga baka o minai yo no naka de aritai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "正",
              "しょう"
            ],
            [
              "直",
              "じき"
            ],
            [
              "者",
              "もの"
            ],
            [
              "見",
              "み"
            ],
            [
              "世",
              "よ"
            ],
            [
              "中",
              "なか"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "正直者がばかを見ない世の中でありたい",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              23
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Please see the appendix table.",
          "roman": "beppyō o sanshō saretai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "別",
              "べっ"
            ],
            [
              "表",
              "ぴょう"
            ],
            [
              "参",
              "さん"
            ],
            [
              "照",
              "しょう"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "別表を参照されたい",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expressing a wish of the speaker: I hope that; I wish that"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ある",
          "ある#Japanese"
        ],
        [
          "である",
          "である#Japanese"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(only with verb ある, である and honorifics) Expressing a wish of the speaker: I hope that; I wish that"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ta̠i]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[tsùkúꜜrù]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[tsùkúrítáꜜì]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[àsóbú]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[àsóbítáí]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[àsóbítáꜜì]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Daijirin",
    "The Tale of the Heike"
  ],
  "word": "たい"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese particles",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "particle"
      },
      "expansion": "たい • (tai)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "particle",
  "redirects": [
    "田井",
    "田居"
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ばい"
    },
    {
      "word": "For pronunciation and definitions of たい – see the following entry: 田井"
    },
    {
      "word": "For pronunciation and definitions of たい – see the following entry: 田居"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms with usage examples",
        "Requests for translations of Japanese usage examples",
        "Saga Japanese"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              8,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "roman": "sō desu tai",
          "text": "そうですたい",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sentence-ending particle indicating emphasis"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Shinmura, Izuru",
          "w:Shinmura Izuru"
        ],
        [
          "広辞苑",
          "w:ja:広辞苑"
        ],
        [
          "Tokyo",
          "w:Tokyo"
        ],
        [
          "Iwanami Shoten",
          "w:Iwanami Shoten"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Saga; Nagasaki; Saga; Nagasaki",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki) sentence-ending particle indicating emphasis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "たい"
}

Download raw JSONL data for たい meaning in Japanese (11.7kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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