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「右手【みぎて】で描【か】いた、今ここに避難所【ひなんじょ】はないんだ。息【いき】を吸【す】いこんだ。つまらない世界【せかい】壊【こわ】したくて。」
Translation: Drawn with my right hand, here, now, as for the shelter, there is
none. I inhaled. The boring world wants to be destroyed/broken.

How does one indicate desire correctly if both "~kute" and "tai" indicate it?
It would make sense if "~kute", like i've heard, is an ending to an i form
adjective, but why is it on a verb like "kowasu"? I provided context as well
as the phrase in question because it's such a context based language.

I'm sure I'm just confused somewhere, but I really want to clear this up.
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grammar verbs i-adjectives
~くて on a verb? How do you indicate desire?
～たい is an auxiliary verb that conjugates like an い adjective. 壊す + たい + て =
壊したくて.
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たくて is the te-form of たい "want to". The form たくて only has one function, to
make a subordinate clause of the verb before ("wanting to V", "want to V,
so/and"), that connects to a main verb (predicate), unless it is used with
certain idioms that need te-form for other reasons.

Then where did the main verb go? In this case, the sentence is inverted. The
predicate it connects to is actually the previous one.

> つまらない世界壊したくて、息を吸いこんだ。  
>  _I breathed in, wanting/wishing to destroy the boring world._
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