つもりで・つもりだった: Advanced intentions

Introduction

A while back, I introduced つもり to you for the very first time in the Fledgling Forest. Today, we're going to bring it back and add a couple of cool additional usages. I hope that sounds good because that's what we're doing, no ifs, ands, or buts!

～つもりで: With the intention of ○○/As if ○○

構成こうせい

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  Casual verb/casual past verbつもりで

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  な-adjective(な)/noun(の)つもりで

  Example:
  → 醤油しょうゆラーメンを食たべるつもりで行いったけど、結局けっきょく魚介ぎょかいラーメンを食たべた。
  ”I went with the intention of eating soy sauce ramen, but I ended up eating seafood ramen.”

For today's lesson, we'll be using our old friend つもり ("intention"), and attaching a couple of other grammatical devices to it. First, let's review how つもり works on its own.