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A isn't being done; not trying to A
This shows a current situation or condition. (He/She/It is not doing A)
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彼 は 意 見 の 主 張 ばかり して 話 し 合 い を しよう と しない 。 
He just asserts his opinion and makes no attempts to discuss things.
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私 の 祖 母 は 足 が 悪 く 自 分 で 歩 こ う と しない ん で す 。 
My grandmother's legs are bad and she doesn't try to walk on her own.

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AVerb: Volitional
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Basic Examples:
読もうとしない (not (trying to) read)

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Stupie
Level: 86
(9 months ago)

V လုပ်မဲ့ပုံလည်းမပေါ်ဘူး

  • တစ်ခုခု ပြုလုပ်မဲ့ပုံမပေါ်ဘူး / လုပ်ဖို့မကြိုးစားဘူး
  • သူများဘက်ကိုပြောတာ

သူ့ကြည့်ရတာ စာကျက်မဲ့ပုံလဲ မပေါ်ဘူး / ကြည့်ရတာ ဝန်ခံမဲ့ပုံလည်းမပေါ်ဘူး /ဖိတ်မနေနဲ့ လာမဲ့ပုံလည်းမပေါ်ဘူး

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Mirix
Level: 44
(1 year ago)

今週弟がテストあるのに　テストのために頑張ろうとしない

My younger brother has a test this week, but he doesn’t try to do his best for the test


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くるるぎくん
Level: 1
Could this be interchanged with the normal whateververb te form+いません
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マイコー
Level: 261
I feel like this one gives the nuance that the subject is not making the attempt to do the action - as in, he/she is not trying to do something.
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くるるぎくん
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Awww i see what your saying. I thought this seemed a Little familiar.
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shirothekiller
Level: 1
would it be better to include the nuance of "not trying to do something" in the definition?
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マイコー
Level: 261
Agreed! It was a little further down, but it deserves to be in the main definition.
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ドロガメ
Level: 9

The name of this grammar point is is ようとしない, but the examples show verbs conjugated in the conditional form. Is this construction sometimes related to よう and/or ように? If not, might it be clearer to have this grammar point be called しようとしない or [Volitional] + としない? (It could be that I'm just missing a convention when it comes to shorthand volitional verb conjugations, in which case sorry to be a bother.)

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8 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 261

Checked a couple of references. The "Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar" gives it as ようとする. A Japanese-teacher focused grammar dictionary I have gives it as V-ようとする. So both are pretty close to what is given on renshuu.


I can see the V-よう being a bit clearer, though, so for this page, I updated it to that.

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友人
Level: 1

I'm not sure if this addresses the question, but the ようと in this grammar comes from 用途 "usefulness; service; purpose". So, it's a noun, or a stative verb with する, not the volitional form of a verb with とする.


Also, the term is missing from the header. Couldn't get back here without back-paging my browser.

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