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ね 、 仕 事 が 終 わ っ て か ら 何 か を 食 べ よ う ！ 
Hey, let's eat something after work is finished!
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え っ 、 今日 は 貴方 の 誕 生 日 な の ？ じ ゃ 、 お 祝 い を 為 よ う よ ！ 
Oh, your birthday is today? Alright, let's celebrate!
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みなこ は 何処 に 行 っ た の だ ろ う か ？ 探 し に 行 こ う か ？ 
Where did Minako go? Shall we go to search for her?
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此 の 部屋 の 色 を 赤 に 為 よ う ！ 
Let's make this room red!
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お 母 さ ん は 五 年 前 に 「 何時 か 旅 行 に 行 こ う 」 と 言 っ た の に 、 未 だ 何処 に も 行 っ て な い ！ 
Even though Mom said "Let's go on a vacation," 5 years ago, we still haven't gone anywhere!
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１０ 分 休 憩 為 よ う 。 
Let's take a 10 minute break.
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お 酒 を 飲 も う よ 。 
Let's have sake.
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カ ー テ ン の 後 ろ に 隠 れ よ う 。 
Let's hide behind the curtain.
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此 処 に 暫 く 座 っ て 景色 を 見 よ う 。 
Let's sit here for a while and look at the view.
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此 の 機 会 を 利 用 為 よ う 。 
We will take advantage of this chance.
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さ あ 、 皆 、 先 へ 進 も う 。 
Now folks, let's go on.
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さ あ 、 車 か ら 降 り よ う 。 
Let's get out of the car now.
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さ あ そ れ で は 始 め よ う 。 
Well, in that case, let's begin.
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Getting the sentences
1. Determine if it's a godan or ichidan verb
How do I determine the type of the verb?
2. Conjugating the verbs
Godan verbs
1. Drop the final u and add おう (ou) to create the volitional form.
む (mu) => もう(mou)
す (su) => そう(sou)
う (u) => おう (ou)
ぬ (nu) => のう(nou)
つ (tsu) => とう (tou)
ぶ (bu) => ぼう(bou)
く (ku) => こう (kou)
ぐ (gu) => ごう(gou)
る (ru) => ろう(rou)
Ichidan verbs
1. Drop the final る from the end of the verb and add よう to create the volitional form

Special cases
1a. する (to do) is changed to しよう.
1b. くる (to come) is changed to こよう.


Conjugation examples
Let's conjugate the godan verb 書く/かく (to write):
Basic Examples
1. かく -> かこう (Let's write)

Now let's conjugate the verb 食べる/たべる (to eat), which is an ichidan verb:
Basic Examples
1. たべる -> たべよう (Let's eat)
Related Expressions
ましょう
Where this grammar is found


Grammar usage notes

This is the informal/friendly form.
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fareastfurfaro
Level: 1
Its the ましょう form but casual / informative
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Dmw275
Level: 685

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looh
Level: 19
If you add とする, doesn't it mean that they actually are going to do it?
例：お父さんは銀行へ行こうとする。Father will go to the bank.
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マイコー
Level: 300
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: 300
That, or 'about to do ..'.
Here you go: http://www.renshuu.org/index.php?page=grammar/individual&id=87
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安努龍
Level: 4
So I use volitional quite a bit to say "I'm thinking about doing X." To do this, I say ~Volitionalと思っています。 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: 300
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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6 years ago
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マイコー
Level: 300
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 ～しない方がいい (It'd be better to not do xxx).
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まさむね123
Level: 1
That makes sense, thanks! 
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