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I am listening to a song and I came across the sentence,
分かりたくもないのさ.
What does the く-form of the たい form of a verb turn into? In other words, what is 分かりたく? Is it a noun? Or does it stay a verb? And what is the purpose of turning it into the く form?
And for those interested, the song is pretender by official dism.
A verb modified with たい behaves just like an i-adjective. So 分かりたくない is just the standard negation: "I don't want to understand".
To understand what difference adding も makes, see this link.
