"Этот человек не хочет утку."
Translation:This person does not want the duck.
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i agree, Ducks are a lot of fun to watch and play with. They also taste GOOD with plum sauce.
Would the translation be the same for the sentence "This person does not want duck" instead of "the duck"?
I believe this sentence could translate as "This person does not want duck", "This person does not want a duck", and "This person does not want the duck", given Russian's lack of articles. TL;DR: Yes
It can mean either, from what I've seen. I saw a video of President Putin telling a joke in Russian, and the word he used for "man" was "человек"
I believe Russian is simpler than English in this matter: "человек" is gender neutral, "мужчина" and "женщина" aren't. For me English "man" is sometimes ambiguous: it may means "мужчина" or "человек".
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Человек means person or man. I'm not a native Russian speaker but it seems too formal of a word to mean guy. Another word for guy would be парень.
I thought I saw somewhere that this was a generic term that could be translated "guy", like the Australian "bloke".
Not sure if you've found it out by now, but 'etot' means 'this' and works like an adjective - it has to come before a masculine noun you specify. In this sentence you are pointing to a specific person who does not want a duck, so it is natural to specify the person in question with 'this'. Hope this helped.
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"This guy does not want a duck" is rejected, in favor of "person," (3/6/2018) but "guy," while traditionally male, can be used in a quite gender neutral way in modern American English.... Couldn't человек be translated as "guy" here?
Can this be used in both a restaurant-type context and a petting zoo-type context?
Людской is a word from russian prison jargon. Человек can be translated as 'human' if you mean a kind of animals (usually in biology).
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No, людской - slightly archaic. Not prison jargon. Can be used also человеческий. And remembe, single form -человек, plural form - люди. No exist человеки and людь. Example - людское море (very many people), человеческий характер.
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ох, ну никак я не могу отделаться от ощущения "ночной утки"))) Правильно он ее не хочет....
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I noticed that Russians tend to connect words that end and begin with the same-ish syllabes, like other languages do.
I said "guy" instead of "person" but it was wrong. I'd learned it that way previously in a classroom.
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In case there is no other context " need" should be as correct as "want"; my humble opinion but it is not DLs
"This person does not want the duck" - the only answer Duo accepts as of 3/19/22. I tried the other variants "a duck" or just "duck" but no go. Reported it.