I want you to
Structure
- Verb[ て ] + ほしい
[てほしい is used for when you want someone else to do something]
[たい is used when the speaker wants to do something or the speaker is speaking from someone else’s point of view ]
Can you use してもらいたい to the same effect?
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Hey and welcome on the community forums 
Sorry for the extremely slow answer 
Yes, you can express the same idea using てもらいたい.
It will have the same meaning, but will be more indirect and therefore more polite. Plus, てほしい is used MUCH more often than てもらいたい.
You can make it even less direct by using てもらいたいんですが(and not finishing the sentence), it will make it into a more hesitant request.
When you want to make a more humble request, when speaking to superior and the like you can use ていただきたいです (or again, ていただきたいんですが)
I hope it helps,
Cheers!
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In this question:
コーラを ________ です。[買う]
I want you to buy [me] a cola.
Why is かってくれてほしい not correct?
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I basically came to ask the same thing, though I was going to also ask whether
コーラを かってほしい です。
specifically implies the “me” in “I want you to buy me a cola”, or if that’s just the most likely intent without any additional context, as I’d have read that as plain old “I want you to buy a cola”.
This is basically right. In most situations, the listener would assume you meant them, assuming there is no additional context. If you were specifically talking about someone else prior to that, then that could change the context.
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I also want to add that it seems that 作ってくれて 欲しい seems like the correct response, 作って欲しい would be “I want you to make a bento everyday” and does not clearly indicate the verb of giving.
て・くれる is not used with て・欲しい.
I’ve seen constructions like 作って渡して欲しい to say “I want you to make it and hand it over”, but the English sentences for this grammar point don’t say that.
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