"Этот человек не хочет утку."

Translation: This person does not want the duck.

[QuentinTheFawn]

Why? Ducks are great.

[ph516503]

Especially with some nice plum sauce.

[Sheymalu]

i agree, Ducks are a lot of fun to watch and play with. They also taste GOOD with plum sauce.

[emononen]

Would the translation be the same for the sentence "This person does not want duck" instead of "the duck"?

[UnframedCactus]

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

[DavidCorba5]

or also a duck,as well as duck or the duck.. To me all these seem right.

[Toni31044]

Yes, it was accepted too

[John495488]

Shouldn't "человек" be translated as "person" and not "man"

[UnframedCactus]

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"

[anton_t13]

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".

[Dominik160559]

What about human?

[SrtaVernon]

Can человек also be translated as "guy"... that guy doesn't want a duck

[cherub721]

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.

[detailaddict]

I thought I saw somewhere that this was a generic term that could be translated "guy", like the Australian "bloke".

[LeadByExample]

Person is in the answer but not one of the choices.

[Judeauwanabe]

Why этот and not это?

[hjens]

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.

[jtaylor162]

"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?

[OttenhoffJohn]

Can this be used in both a restaurant-type context and a petting zoo-type context?

[Phobos_Raven]

The same way) Duck in restaurant and duck at zoo - have no differences

[RichardVog2]

Why not human? Instead of man

[UnframedCactus]

The Russian word for human is людско́й; человек means a "person" or a "man" in general.

[Pethanise]

Людской is a word from russian prison jargon. Человек can be translated as 'human' if you mean a kind of animals (usually in biology).

[ftay98]

Quack

[jktxrf1982]

ох, ну никак я не могу отделаться от ощущения "ночной утки"))) Правильно он ее не хочет....

[vov8189]

Doesn't and does not are the same. Why did I get a mistake here?

[MagicPumpkin83]

Can't even hear the last word

[Marty62203]

I said "guy" instead of "person" but it was wrong. I'd learned it that way previously in a classroom.

[Holly413466]

More for me!