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Use ほしがっている to express "to want" in the third person.

お姉さんは車をほしがっています。Her sister wants a car.
インコはバナナをほしがっている。The parrot wants a banana.

To express things other people want to do, conjugate verbs to the plain past form and tack ~がっている.

いつも韓国ドラマを見たがっている。She always wants to watch Kdramas.
彼は彼女に車を買ったがっています。He wants to buy his girlfriend a car.


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I used cotoacademy as a frame of reference.
Expressing Wants in Japanese - Coto Academy


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