<p>I wish i was you.</p>
<p>I wish i were you.</p>
<p>which one is correct?</p>
<p>I think it's the 2nd one because when you say something like "I wish" you have to use subjunctive, therefore it's "I were."</p>
<p>Ya its the second one, I wish I were you</p>
<p>yea that was most def a stupid q</p>
<p>This becomes especially clear if u take a foreign language; most have different subjunctive mood verb endings and all that, so you learn when to use them.</p>
<p>Just remember the phrase "if, were, would". If I were to write this correctly, then you would do well on your next SAT.</p>
<p>2nd one is correct</p>
<p>The comment that foreign languages make this clear is correct. The verb "be" is the only verb in English in which the subjunctive form doesn't look just like the simple past form (because "be" distinguishes two simple past forms, "was" and "were"). In German and many other Indo-European languages, there would be many more examples of distinct subjunctive forms of verbs, so this would be something you would be used to. (And in Chinese and in plenty of other languages, there are no such verb changes as this at all.)</p>