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10-06-2011, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by masaegu View Post
Most naturally, we would say:

「何(なに)が言いたいのかな。」 or
「なんて言ってるのかな。」 or
「何(なに)を言おうとしてるのかな。」
「なんて言ってると思う?」
All with a rising intonation at the end.

There will be no "he" because it is so obvious who is being talked about.

How do you even get にせんとすることか?
Thanks.

I typed "attempt" into a dictionary and it gave me せんとする and at some point in the past I read that こと makes the verb preceeding it a noun. So, I thought, せんとすること would become "attempting". The に before it... actually I'm not too sure about that one myself, but it was meant to be a preposition of some kind.
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