Мне тоже хочется немного тишины вечером.

I also feel like having a bit of silence in the evening.

Breakdown of Мне тоже хочется немного тишины вечером.

• мне: me
• вечером: in the evening
• немного: a bit
• тишина: the silence
• хотеться: to feel like / to want
• тоже: too

Questions & Answers about Мне тоже хочется немного тишины вечером.

Why does the sentence start with Мне and not Я?

Because хочется is used in an impersonal construction. Instead of я хочу (I want), Russian often says мне хочется (literally: to me it is desired / I feel like).
So Мне is the dative case, marking the experiencer (the person who has the feeling/want).

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What exactly is хочется and how is it different from хочу?

• хочется = an impersonal form meaning feel like / have an urge / would like (more about a feeling, softer and less direct).
• хочу = 1st person singular of хотеть meaning I want (more direct, more “decision-like”).

Compare:

• Я хочу тишины = I want quiet (more straightforward).
• Мне хочется тишины = I feel like some quiet (more “mood/need”).

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Why is there no subject-verb agreement (no я + verb in 1st person)?

Because хочется doesn’t agree with a grammatical subject here. It’s an impersonal predicate: the verb stays in 3rd person singular (хочется) and the person is shown with the dative (мне, тебе, ему, etc.).

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Why is тишины in the genitive case?

After хочется, the “thing desired” is often put in the genitive, especially with abstract nouns like тишина.
Also, немного commonly triggers a partitive genitive: немного тишины = some (a bit of) quiet.

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What is the dictionary form of тишины?

The dictionary form is тишина (quiet, silence).
тишины is genitive singular: (немного) тишины.

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How does немного work here? Is it an adjective or an adverb?

Here немного functions as a quantifier meaning a little / some. It behaves like a “quantity word” and is typically followed by the genitive: немного + Genitive → немного тишины.
It’s not agreeing like an adjective would.

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What role does тоже play, and where can it go in the sentence?

тоже means also / too. In this sentence Мне тоже хочется… means I also feel like… (i.e., someone else does too).
Word order is flexible, but meaning/focus shifts:

• Мне тоже хочется немного тишины вечером. = I, too, feel like some quiet in the evening.
• Мне хочется тоже немного тишины вечером. = I feel like also having a bit of quiet (can sound more contrastive/marked).
• Мне хочется немного тишины тоже вечером. = “also in the evening” (odd unless contrasting times).

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Why is вечером in that form, and what case is it?

вечером is instrumental singular used adverbially to mean in the evening. This is a common time expression pattern in Russian: утром, днём, вечером, ночью.

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What’s the difference between вечером and по вечерам?

• вечером usually refers to a specific evening context or “in the evening (today/that day)”, depending on context.
• по вечерам means in the evenings (habitually/regularly).

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Could I say в вечером or в вечер instead?

Not here. The natural expression is вечером.
Using в would require a different construction, typically в + accusative: в этот вечер (on that evening) or вечером without a preposition for the general time-of-day meaning.

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Is the word order fixed? Could I move parts around?

It’s flexible, but you change emphasis:

• Вечером мне тоже хочется немного тишины. (focus on “in the evening”)
• Мне вечером тоже хочется немного тишины. (evening as an added detail)
• Мне тоже вечером хочется немного тишины. (can sound slightly awkward; focus gets muddled)

The given order sounds natural and neutral.

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How do I pronounce it / where is the stress?

Common stresses:

• мне́ то́же хо́чется немно́го тишины́ ве́чером
  Notes: хо́чется (stress on хо́-), тишыны́ (stress on the last syllable).