Translation of 泳ぎたがっている I have the following sentence to translate. So far I have the following. My wife in the Sea of Japan ... so she was saying that she needs to buy a new swimsuit. My problem is the ``. I think it means she is `wanting to swim`, but I would expect that to be written as follows. - I swim - I want to swim - I am wanting to swim So I don't understand why it's `` instead of ``. I thought the `` form was considered an i-adjective. And I can't think of any way to get the `` form used in the sentence.

You can't directly use if you are talking about other people's state of mind. You need to attach (which attaches to the root of any i-adj).

> - (I/he/she) swim(s)
> - I want to swim
> - He/she (shows signs that he/she) wants to swim
> - He/she (is showing signs that he/she) wants to swim

For the most part and are pretty similar, just a difference in nuance as to how "current"/"right now" the signs are.

As in your sentence, often the fact that something is happening _now_ is the relevant part, requiring you to use .