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- "Этот человек не хочет утку."
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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.
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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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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ох, ну никак я не могу отделаться от ощущения "ночной утки"))) Правильно он ее не хочет....
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I said "guy" instead of "person" but it was wrong. I'd learned it that way previously in a classroom.