"Do you want chicken?"
Translation:Ты хочешь курицу?
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Хочешь is informal for "you" (do you want. ..) while хочет is 3rd person (he wants. .. does he want. ..).
They come from the same verb:[EDIT: Хотеть].
Я хочу Ты хочешь Он хочет Мы хотим Вы хотите Они хотят
Hope that helps.
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‧ Хотеть verb conjugation ‧ cooljugator.com/ru/хотеть ‧
Хотеть ‧ Present Tense ‧ 1st, 2nd, 3rd Person Conjugation ‧
Person: ‧ Я ‧ ‧ ‧ Ты ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ Он/она ‧ Мы ‧ ‧ ‧ Вы ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ Они
Хотеть: ‧ хочу ‧ хочешь ‧ хочет ‧ ‧ хотим ‧ хотите ‧ хотят
Could you use partitive here, like, "Do you want some of the chicken" - "Ты хочешь курицы"?
No,you couldn't. It's wrong. Notice the end of the word: "курицУ" but not "курицЫ" in this situation.
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птенец курицы ‧ цыплёнок ‧ цыпа ‧ chick hatchling nestling
Слово «цыпленок» имеет звукоподражательный характер, произошло оно от сочетания «цып-цып», которое используют для подзывания птиц. ‧ semenov.academic.ru/1313/цыпленок
The word "chicken" [ «цыпленок» ] has an imitative nature, it comes from a combination of "chick-chick" «цып-цып», which is used for calling birds. ‧ semenov.academic.ru/1313/цыпленок
[ Домашняя Птица | Poultry ]
[ Ку́рица Ку́ры | Chicken/s Hen/s chicken meat ]
[ Пету́х Пету́хи | Rooster, Gamecock, Cockerel, Cock, adult male gallinaceous bird, male chicken · Га́лльский Пету́х ]
[ Птене́ц Пте́нцы | Chick/s Nestling/s of any bird / fowl ]
[ Цыплёнок Цыпля́та | Chick/s of domestic chickens | Дома́шняя Ку́рица | Red Junglefowl · Gallus gallus domesticus ]
Would "Хочешь ты курицу" also be acceptable? I know in German, you have to flip the subject & verb when making a question, but idk if there is a rule in Russian for this. Спасибо! :)
since I have no cyrillc letters on my keybord i write : ty hocheshb kuritsu but it always gives me error and the wrong word is hocheshb . how should I write it?
Is ты necessary here? The subject seems to get dropped in many sentences and is fully implied in this case by хочешь. If it is, is there some rule of thumb for when the subject is necessary and when it is not?
Yes, in this case you can drop "ты". In such "propositional" questions you usually can omit it. There are a few other cases where you can like "пусть + инфинитив". But generally you need a subject even if it's implied by the verb's form.
