Still hoping...

Yesterday Cassy stole one of my lesson ideas!

Well, she didn't "steal" it really. She just got to it first.

I, too, was planning on writing a lesson about ～といい meaning "to hope."

Since my sentences and points are slightly different, I'm going to write it anyways. Take that, haters.

First, maybe check her lesson. It's good: "I hope~"

Now here's mine...

Let's say we're going on a trip to Yakushima (because it's my dream to go there--it looks AWESOME).

Hold on, now we have to look at pictures of Yakushima:

Ahh... someday I'm going to go to Yakushima and straight up Indiana Jones all those subtropical rainforests.

Someday... T_T

Another notable fact is that Yakushima Island inspired the movie もののけ姫 (もののけひめ), Princess Mononoke, which is such an awesome movie:

You should definitely go watch it... in Japanese.

Oh, dear. I'm getting sidetracked.

So, yeah, let's pretend we're planning to go on a trip to Yakushima.

And our friend Michael is also going:

Or maybe Michael is the coolest guy we know, but he's not sure if he can join us for our rainforest adventures just yet.

In this case, we could say:

Grammar Alert!

来る・くる・(someone) comes
↓　↓　↓
来るといい・くるといい・hope (someone) comes

Almost every time you see this ～といい, it will be attached to a verb in the plain present form.

Or... dictionary form.

Or... simple form.

I have no idea what to call it anymore--the form in dictionaries.

It's called 原形（げんけい）if I remember correctly. But my first Japanese class called it 辞書形（じしょけい // dictionary + form）which I'm pretty sure is NOT a word. Just one more reason I'm always complaining about my old teachers.

Anyways, yeah, take note that we're using 原形 verbs before ～といい. Or だ, which for the purposes of this lesson we can also call a 原形 verb, I suppose.

You'll also notice that it's common to stick な onto the end of ～といい.

This is because hoping something is kind of personal, and な is (sometimes) "inward ね."

Draw it out like なあ and なー to make it stronger.

Examples, of course...