N4 grammar

〜てほしい

tehoshii

Wanting someone else to

Formation

てほしい is how you say you want somebody else to do something, as opposed to たい for what you want to do yourself. The person you want to act takes に. It is direct enough that softening it is usually wise.

Examples

〜てほしい is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. The girl begged her mother to accompany her.

  2. Do you want me to pay in advance?

  3. I'd like to know how to send money to France.

  4. I want to charter a bus.

  5. We want the meeting arranged as soon as possible.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.