Say I want to speak with someone


How do you express that you want to speak with someone using Kanji? So far I
imagine I would us something like マリオ話{はなせ}欲{ほ}しいます。Combining the name of the
person "マリオ", expressing a want "欲{ほ}しい", and defining that speaking "話{はなせ}"
is what I want.

I think I may need the を or で particles in here, but need to learn more about
how particles are used in sentences.




Your sentence is something like “Mario want please talking” in English.

  1. You don’t want the noun 話{はなし}, you want the verb 話{はな}す.
  2. The verb takes an argument of who you talk with, marked by と. So, マリオと.
  3. To change a verb to express a want of your own, you use the 〜たい form, not ほしい. So 話{はな}したい.
  4. Judging by your inclusion of ます you’re trying to make the sentence polite. The way to make 話したい polite is by adding です (because 〜たい inflects like an i-adjective). So, 話したいです.

Together, マリオと話{はな}したいです。

Putting some words next to each other unfortunately does not result in a
grammatical or understandable sentence generally, so I recommend picking up a
grammar guide and generating sentences with that as opposed to guessing.




Your sentence is something like “Mario want please talking” in English.

  1. You don’t want the noun 話{はなし}, you want the verb 話{はな}す.
  2. The verb takes an argument of who you talk with, marked by と. So, マリオと.
  3. To change a verb to express a want of your own, you use the 〜たい form, not ほしい. So 話{はな}したい.
  4. Judging by your inclusion of ます you’re trying to make the sentence polite. The way to make 話したい polite is by adding です (because 〜たい inflects like an i-adjective). So, 話したいです.

Together, マリオと話{はな}したいです。

Putting some words next to each other unfortunately does not result in a
grammatical or understandable sentence generally, so I recommend picking up a
grammar guide and generating sentences with that as opposed to guessing.

