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I’m at the part in Textfugu where we are covering ～たい, and conjugation. We have the following examples:
たべたい です
たべたくない です
たべたかった です
たべたくなかった ですTextfugu doesn’t say that たべ stops being a verb, but the addition of です makes me think that grammatically speaking it stops being a verb, and becomes something else? Am I wrong in thinking of it that way? Or at this point is です really just a particle tacked on to the end of the verb for politeness only?
It still technically is a verb but it conjugates the same way as an い adjective. As you rightly said, です is used to make the sentence polite, regardless of the tense.
AnonymousIt’s a special form. Though it conjugates as an adjective, it can rightfully use both the を or the が particle.
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