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Volitional
1. Let's A
          いつか        といった    まだ どこにも       
Even though Mom said "Let's go on a vacation," 5 years ago, we still haven't gone anywhere!
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looh
Level: 16
If you add とする, doesn't it mean that they actually are going to do it?
:おさんはこうとする。Father will go to the bank.
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マイコー
Level: 260
It means they are about to do something. http://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=grammar/individual&id=87
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Wallace
Level: 1
Doesn't Volitional + とする means "try to do"
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マイコー
Level: 260
That, or 'about to do ..'.
Here you go: http://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=grammar/individual&id=87
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Level: 4
So I use volitional quite a bit to say "I'm thinking about doing X." To do this, I say ~Volitionalとっています。 Is this correct? I don't know where I learned it, but I seem to use it a lot!

On another note, wanting to review this grammar point but not knowing where it was located, I used the grammar search box on the main grammar page. Unfortunately, typing in "Volitional" yielded nothing. This is probably a wider problem, but shouldn't the English titles in these grammar sections be search-able?
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マイコー
Level: 260
http://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=grammar/individual&id=86

And yes, it should be searching the english as well. I'll fix that in the beta.
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まさむね123
Level: 1
Based on my research the negative form looks like this:

Godan:
V + まい

Ichidan:
Vstem + まい

exceptions: 
する > するまい / しまい
くる > くるまい

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マイコー
Level: 260
まい is covered here: 

https://www.renshuu.org/grammar/324/


Although I do not think I would call it the negative form. まい is extremely rare, and with the volitional being something similar to "Let's xxx", one would probably not use まい to say "Let's not xxx". A more common approach would be something like ~しないがいい (It'd be better to not do xxx).
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まさむね123
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That makes sense, thanks! 
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