Questions & Answers about Я хочу посмотреть фильм после ужина.
Why is the verb посмотреть used instead of смотреть?
Russian verbs come in pairs of aspects: imperfective (смотреть) for ongoing or habitual actions, and perfective (посмотреть) for single, completed actions. Here посмотреть expresses the intention to complete watching the film once after dinner.
Why do we use the infinitive after хочу?
The verb хотеть (“to want”) is a modal verb that always takes an infinitive to show what you want to do. So you say хочу + посмотреть, not a conjugated form.
Why do we say после ужина and not после ужин or something else?
The preposition после (“after”) requires the genitive case. The noun ужин (“dinner”) in genitive becomes ужина. That’s why it’s после ужина.
Can we omit the pronoun Я here?
Yes. Russian verb forms (like хочу) already mark person and number, so the subject pronoun Я can be dropped if the context is clear.
Is the word order fixed? For example, can we say После ужина я хочу посмотреть фильм?