~たい question

[jesselt]

If I'm using ~たい suffix as in 私はコーヒーをのみたいです how do I turn this into a negative as in "I do not want to drink coffee"?

I assume that it becomes たがっていません when you are talking about someone else, but I'm not sure about when I'm speaking of myself.

[Lucas89]

Originally Posted by Yuusuke

u can say

nomitai ja nai.

you actually just drop the い at the end and add on くない
making
飲みたくない - Don't want to drink

nomitai ja nai is wrong

Edit:
For ～たい it just changes like an い adjective

so for example:

飲みたい - want to drink
飲みたくない - dont want to drink
飲みたかった - wanted to drink
飲みたくなかった - didnt want to drink

[MMM]

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[RadioKid]

>私はコーヒーをのみたいです

As a grammar discussion, it is "私はコーヒーを飲みたくありません。" in negative.

However, if I am asked "コーヒーを飲みたいですか？", I would reply "いいえ、結構です。" or "いりません。".

[MMM]

Originally Posted by RadioKid

>私はコーヒーをのみたいです

As a grammar discussion, it is "私はコーヒーを飲みたくありません。" in negative.

However, if I am asked "コーヒーを飲みたいですか？", I would reply "いいえ、結構です。" or "いりません。".

飲みたくないです is certainly more commonly heard than 飲みたくありません.

[KyleGoetz]

飲みたくありません sounds more formal to me than 飲みたくないです, but I've never had much of an ear for subtle formality, so I could be wrong. It's likely just because everyone I know informally uses 飲みたくない, so that sense of plain-ness bleeds over in my perception of 飲みたくないです, while 飲みたくありません has no connotation to me.