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"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.
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.
Is where the A or S should be in the qwerty layout. And the I doesn't exist you use the т then the ы . Ты
Nope! Spelling mistake there and a little issue with your conjugation of the verb. You're very close and it seems you've got the idea. "Вы хотите курицу" WOULD be correct. :)
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.
You should not use this word order. It's very strange in Russian if not disallowed. "Ты хочешь курицу" is the way to go!
