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I have this sentence in my JLPT exercise book:

> 彼{かれ}は有名人{ゆうめいじん}ゆえの不自由{ふじゆう}さから逃{に}げたくなった。

The translation offered is:

> He wanted to get away from the difficulties of being a celebrity.

What is throwing me is the `逃{に}げたくなった` part. It seems to me that the past
tense form of "wanted to get away" should be `逃{に}げたかった`, and the past tense
form of "did not want to get away" should be `逃{に}げたくなかった`. I feel the English
translation probably represents the intended meaning, because it would be
weird to not want to get away from difficulties, but on the other hand my own
translation of the original Japanese is something along the lines that he did
not want to escape.

So what is `逃{に}げたくなった`? Am I wrong about the verb forms I think it should be,
or is something else going on here?
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verbs tense
Is 「たくなった」 a typo or a grammatical structure that is different than I think it is?
逃げたくなった is the past tense form of 逃げ+たく+なる which consists of 動詞「逃げる」 + 助動詞「たい」
+ 動詞「なる」.

逃げ >> 連用形(continuative form) of 逃げる >> run away  
たく >> 連用形(continuative form) of the volitional たい >> want to  
なった >> the past tense form of なる(成る) >> become  

So it's like "became to want to run away", i.e. "started to feel like running
away".
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逃げたくなった is:

  * 逃げる = "to flee", in its stem form (連用形) → 逃げ
  * ～たい = the suffix that expresses wanting to do, conjugated to ～たく (again, the 連用形)
  * なる = "to become", in past tense → なった

So this means something to the effect of "it became the case that he wanted to
get away".

For the sentence as a whole, I would offer a translation like "he began to
want to get away from the difficulties of being a celebrity".

For "he did not want to get away", you would indeed use 逃げたくな **か** った.
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