～がり・～がる: Attaching がる to adjectives!

Introduction

Welcome to your second ～がる lesson! This is sort of a "part two", if you will, where we'll be combining がる with adjectives. Ready, get set, aaand grammar!

What kinda state are you in?

Structure

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  い-adjective (い)がる

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  な-adjectiveがる

  Example:
  → 海うみを怖こわがっている。
  ”They're scared of the ocean.”

Okay first things first: since we used がる to specifically express third-person wants and desires in our last lesson, we'll have to reset our understanding of how がる works a bit.

When we were attaching がる to たい in the previous lesson, we were essentially already attaching it to an い-adjective. I say "essentially", because たい is not technically classified as an い-adjective, but rather an auxiliary adjective (助動詞じょどうし). Also I didn't mention it before, but when we did this, we were actually turning たい into a verb! This is even more obvious with the 「欲ほしい + がる」 pattern. 欲ほしがる turns the い-adjective 欲ほしい, into a verb!