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ka ne at the end of a sentence. The difference is that you are

really talking to yourself with ka shira, whereas with ka ne,
you’re halfway talking to someone else. Note that ka shira is

used almost exclusively by women.

Konban ame ga furu ka shira.
I wonder if it’s going to rain tonight.

Mado o shimeta ka shira.

I wonder if I closed the windows.

Oishii ka shira.

I wonder if it is delicious.

Sonna ni o-kane ga hoshii ka shira.
I wonder if they want money that much.

10.21. Desiderative verbs … …tagaru

You have learned that each verb can underlie a desiderative

adjective with the meaning ‘wants to’: taberu ‘eats,’ tabetai
‘wants to eat’; iku ‘goes,’ ikitai ‘wants to go.’ There is also,

for each verb, a DESIDERATIVE VERB made by adding -ta-gar-
u to the infinitive. So, alongside the adjective tabetai ‘wants

to eat,’ we have the verb tabetagaru ‘is eager to eat, desires