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Introduction to Russian:
Lesson 15

We have also learned the informal word for you, which is ты. But we still haven’t learned how to form verbs in it.

Russian ты form of the verbs ends in шь.

So when we have, for example, хочу for I want, we replace that у with шь. However, in this case, a чш combination would be really hard to pronounce. Therefore, a helping vowel е jumps between ч and шь. So you get to get the informal you form:

Russian for informal you is хочешь.

Also remember that the word зтого/зто likes to go between the subject and the verb.

How would you ask (saying it as a statement and just rising your intonation to make it into a question):

Do you want it?

Answer: Ты это хочешь?
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Don’t you want it?

Answer: Ты этого не хочешь?
Not correct. Please try again.