"I would like you to sleep."
Translation:Ich möchte, dass du schläfst.
May 23, 2018
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In German, the phrasing goes "I would like (also: want) that you sleep", it doesn't work with an infinitive.
No, that construction “want/would like [object] to [verb]” doesn’t exist in German. You have to use a dass clause if the “wanter” and the subject of the verb are different people.
You can translate “would like to do something” as würde gern(e) etwas tun, but you can’t use würde gern(e) for “would like that (something happens)” because gerne is literally something along the linse of “gladly”, and “I would gladly that you sleep” doesn’t make sense in English either.