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The most common expressions for stating desires involve the adjectives hoshii and -tai, both meaning ‘want.’ Since desires are internal feelings that are accessible only to the person feeling the desire, the Japanese language distinguishes between the speaker’s own feelings of desire and the desires of others, which the speaker cannot directly feel.
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