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Let's take some rather trivial and also rather casual sentences such as:

(1) Want to meet up at X o'clock? (2) Let us meet up at X o'clock. (3) Want to
grab (something to eat / dinner) later? / Want to get dinner later?

I tried to translate these sentences, however I'm not sure what the different
verb forms that could be used would imply. Let's start with (1).

  * X ji ni aitai desu ka (= To express the "want" part?)
  * X ji ni aimashou ka (= More affirmative?)
  * X ji ni aimasu ka (= Is this allowed?)

(2)

  * X ji ni aimashou. (= The way I saw it online)
  * X ji ni aimasu. (= Is this allowed?)
  * X ji ni aitai desu. (= Expressing the want part, is this allowed?)

(3)

  * Atode (yuushoku o) tabetai desu ka (= I believe this is correct?)
  * Atode (yuushoku o) tabetai masu ka (= Why is this wrong)
  * Atode (yuushoku o) tabe(masu/desu) ka (= Is this very impolite?)

Which of the translation tries above are correct, which ones are wrong, why,
and what do they each imply? I also still don't quite get the different
between masu and desu, for now desu seemed to me as something similar to "to
be", whereas "masu" was simply added to every verb, however the first
translation try of (3) was a sentence I saw online, and it is using desu
instead of masu so I'm not sure anymore.

What other different forms could there be to express these quite trivial
sentences? How would they change in what contexts (Let's use the following
contexts, for example: 1. Work (Asking a colleague or superior), 2. Family, 3.
Friend, 4. Acquaintance, 5. Significant other, 6. Between 3 and 5). I do
believe that English also has slight differences for all of these situations,
although they might lie more in the "way" that the sentence was said rather
than in the sentence itself.

Help greatly appreciated!
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masu/masho, desu/desho, and -tai forms of verbs
Unlike English "want" you don't use "-tai" (in interrogative) to express
invitation.

Both aimashou-ka and aimasu-ka can function as invitation but the former is
safer because the latter can mean a simple question. Simple aimasu doesn't
work as invitation, it just means "I will meet".

tabe-tai-masu and tabe-desu are wrong conjugation.
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