russian word
to want in Russian: хотеть
verbimperfectivelevel A1#92 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Дети хотят мороженого. The children want ice cream.
Я хочу поехать на море летом. I want to go to the sea in the summer.
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
захотетьto come to want, to take a desire (to do or have something)perfective
Conjugation of хотеть
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| я / мы | хочу | хотим |
| ты / вы | хочешь | хотите |
| он / они | хочет | хотят |
| past | |
|---|---|
| masc | хотел |
| fem | хотела |
| neut | хотело |
| plural | хотели |
| imperative | |
|---|---|
| ты | хоти |
| вы | хотите |
Participles and gerunds
present activeхотящий
past activeхотевший
gerund (imperfective)желая
gerund (perfective)хотев
gerund (perfective)хотевши