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06-25-2008, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by criminalpanda View Post
how would you say

i want to make you smile?

i dont know the verb for make and how would i use it for making you do something.
I'd say 君を笑わせたい (Kimi wo warawasetai) but this sounds more like "I want to make you laugh" to me.

I asked a Japanese friend just now about this and he said "I want to make you smile" is a bit of an awkward phrase in Japanese.
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