Khotity (to want): a pattern worth learning on day one
"To want" is a top-ten word, and it changes for every person — much more than English "want" does. Learn the column once and half of your café orders are done. For example: “Я хочу каву” — I want a coffee. A rule from the Ukrainian course: worked out on examples, not memorized as a wording.
How it works
"To want" is a top-ten word, and it changes for every person — much more than English "want" does. Learn the column once and half of your café orders are done.
Watch my and vy: khochemo, khochete — with the same -mo and -te endings as robymo, robyte (we do, you do). And for "they": khochut, not "khochat" — that ending is a giveaway foreigner mistake.
Table
| Person | khotity |
|---|---|
| ya (I) | khochu |
| ty (you) | khochesh |
| vin / vona (he / she) | khoche |
| my (we) | khochemo |
| vy (you plural / polite) | khochete |
| vony (they) | khochut |
By example
- Я хочу кавуI want a coffee
- Що хочеш пити?What do you want to drink?
- Ми хочемо додомуWe want to go home
How the rule settles in your head
A rule is not memorized from an explanation. It is memorized from an attempt to use it and a mistake — that is why the app delivers it mixed in with words, not as a separate lesson: it resurfaces exactly where you forgot it.
Frequently asked
How to conjugate khotity in Ukrainian?
"To want" is a top-ten word, and it changes for every person — much more than English "want" does. Learn the column once and half of your café orders are done.
What does it look like in an example sentence Ukrainian?
“Я хочу каву” — I want a coffee. A rule is easier to test on sentences like this than to memorize as a wording: what surfaces in conversation is the sentence.