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    Eric Bates
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    こんにちは!

    I have a question concerning “If”/たら  I was hoping someone could help me with.

    Somewhere in Chapter 5 there’s an example sentence that reads:

    えいが を み に いきたかったら ”Cineplex” に いきたい です。
    If we go to see a movie, I want to go to “Cineplex.”

     

    I’m confused about the first part, specifically the conjugation of “いく” in the first part of the sentence (in bold).

    I was expecting it to conjugate to いったら、like in this example a page or two previous:

    わたし は とうきょう へ いったら、でんしゃ で いきます
    If I go to Tokyo, I will go by train.

     

    Can someone please explain what’s happening with いきたかったら?

    Thanks for the help,

    -エリク

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    Joel
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    Specifically, いきたかったら is the ~たら form of いきたい “want to go”.

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