russian word
to want, feel like in Russian: хотеться
verbimperfectivelevel B1#359 by frequency
every form stress-marked · levels from the official TORFL lexical minimum
Мне очень хочется выпить чашку горячего чая. I really feel like having a cup of hot tea.
После долгой дороги им хотелось только спать. After the long journey all they wanted was to sleep.
Aspect pair
This verb is imperfective: ongoing or repeated action. Its perfective partner, for a completed one-time result, is
захотеться(impersonal) to come to feel a desire for something; to suddenly wantperfective
Conjugation of хотеться
Stress marks show the stressed vowel; it moves between forms more often than learners expect.
| present | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| он / они | хочется |
| past | |
|---|---|
| neut | хотелось |