"Кто хочет пойти со мной на дискотеку?"
Translation:Who wants to go to the disco with me?
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Yes, "club" is short for "nightclub" (or "night club"), which is the same as a "discothèque" or "disco". They really should accept "club", "nightclub", and "night club". Even Koreans call it a "club".
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I was thinking that maybe they still call it that in some countries... as far as I know, they stopped calling it that in the US, at least, in the 1970s.
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Eh, it bled into the early 80's but it's certainly a 30-year-old term in the US.
(Thanks DL for making me feel old. Jerks.)
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Interestingly, the word дискотека didn't come into use in Russian until late 1970s. Before people always said "на танцы"/"на танцах".
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That might be because discotheques - and in fact, disco music - didn't exist at all until about 1976 or 1977. :-) Technically, the word "discotheque" itself existed much earlier, but it didn't come to mean 'a club where one goes to dance to disco/popular music' until around that time.
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It wouldn't accept "nightclub". Seriously, no one in the English speaking world still calls them "discos".
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In Russia too, the younger generation hardly ever uses the word дискотека. They go dancing в ночные клубы. But at the time when the word дискотека was used we did not have ночные клубы. Дискотеки часто устраивались в школах (Discos were often organized in high schools).
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How can I count disco? You ever say "discos" when you go to 2 or more disco venues?
Seems like the formal way of saying "club." I wouldn't be surprised if there is a slang word to refer to it as well like in French.
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When a single event rather than a repetitive or continuous action is meant, the verb «хотеть» («хочу») is followed by the infinitive of the perfective verb describing the desired action. Пойти is the perfective counterpart of идти.
