notes

• 「パンが食べたい。」 means “Bread is eat-want-inducing (to me).”
• 「パンを食べたい。」 means “(I) want to eat bread.”
  • the 「たい」 is attached to the structure 「パンを食べ」 (the wanted thing is the action of eating bread)
• 「が」 vs. 「を」 flips the polarity/perspective of the “want”ing

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