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Hello I was doing some translating and got stumped over how to translate this
phrase. Does it mean something like "It makes me wanna pamper you" or does it
mean something like "It makes me wanna take care of you"? The full context of
the sentence would be "いじめて、泣かせて、可愛がりたくなんだよ”
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Meaning of the '可愛がりたく' in '可愛がりたくなんだよ’’？
As you can see on [jisho.org's
entry](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%8F%AF%E6%84%9B%E3%81%8C%E3%82%8B), 可愛がる has
two different meanings, "to love/cherish/dote" and "to haze/beat/torment". The
former is the basic meaning, and the latter is a derivative slangy meaning
used by gangs, delinquent youths, sport players and such. For example, if a
yakuza said 可愛がってやれ, it probably means he wants his men to beat up someone.
This article should help, too:

  * [“Kawaigari”: Learn this depressing sumo jargon while enjoying photos of wrestlers with cats!](https://soranews24.com/2016/01/04/kawaigari-learn-this-depressing-sumo-jargon-while-enjoying-photos-of-wrestlers-with-cats/)

I suppose 可愛がる is used in the derivative sense in your sentence, too, but it
ultimately depends on the context and relationship between the two people. I
won't be surprised if the speaker actually likes the other person.

As an aside, note that this なんだよ is a contracted version of な **る** んだよ. This
is basically based on [this
rule](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/61958/5010), except that んん further
contracted to single ん.
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