Утром мне хочется потянуться и открыть окно.

Утром is the instrumental form of утро and is commonly used as an adverb meaning in the morning.

This is a very common Russian pattern for parts of the day:

• утром = in the morning
• днём = in the daytime / during the day
• вечером = in the evening
• ночью = at night

So Утром мне хочется... means In the morning, I feel like...

Мне хочется is an impersonal way to say I feel like or I want to.

Literally, it works more like to me, it is wanted. That is why мне is in the dative case, not nominative.

Compare:

• Я хочу открыть окно. = I want to open the window.
• Мне хочется открыть окно. = I feel like opening the window.

The version with хочется often sounds softer, more like a spontaneous feeling or desire, rather than a straightforward statement of intention.

Хочется is the 3rd person singular form of хотеться, which is an impersonal verb meaning to feel like, to want, or to have the urge to.

It is usually used in constructions like:

• мне хочется
• тебе хочется
• ему хочется
• нам хочется

Examples:

• Мне хочется спать. = I feel like sleeping / I’m sleepy.
• Ей хочется кофе. = She wants coffee.
• Нам хочется гулять. = We feel like going for a walk.

So in your sentence, мне хочется means I feel like.

Because with хочется, the person experiencing the desire is expressed in the dative.

So:

• мне хочется = I feel like
• тебе хочется = you feel like
• ему хочется = he feels like
• ей хочется = she feels like

This is different from English, where I is the subject. In Russian, this construction is impersonal, so there is no normal nominative subject like я here.

After хочется, Russian usually uses an infinitive to say what someone feels like doing.

So the pattern is:

мне хочется + infinitive

Examples:

• Мне хочется спать. = I feel like sleeping.
• Мне хочется поесть. = I feel like eating.
• Мне хочется потянуться и открыть окно. = I feel like stretching and opening the window.

Both actions are tied to the same мне хочется, so you only need to say хочется once.

Потянуться is the perfective form and usually means to stretch oneself once or to have a stretch.

That fits this sentence well, because it describes a single natural action in the morning.

Compare:

• тянуться = to be stretching / to stretch oneself in a more ongoing or repeated sense
• потянуться = to stretch oneself once, as a complete action

So мне хочется потянуться sounds like I feel like having a stretch.

The -ся shows that the action is reflexive.

Here, потянуться means to stretch oneself. The action comes back to the subject, so Russian uses the reflexive form.

Compare:

• тянуть = to pull, drag
• тянуться = to stretch oneself / reach / extend oneself
• потянуться = to stretch oneself once

In this sentence, it is the natural reflexive verb for the physical action of stretching your body.

Открыть is perfective, so it presents the action as a single completed whole: open the window.

That fits the sentence well, because the speaker feels like doing one complete action.

Compare:

• открыть окно = to open the window once / successfully open it
• открывать окно = to be opening the window, to open windows in general, or to do it repeatedly/habitually

After хочется, both aspects are possible depending on meaning, but here открыть is the most natural choice because it refers to one specific action.

By itself, утром can mean either in the morning in a general sense or this/in the morning in a specific context. The wider context decides.

So this sentence could mean:

• a general habit or feeling: In the morning, I feel like stretching and opening the window
• a specific situation: This morning, I feel like stretching and opening the window

If Russian wants to make the habitual meaning clearer, it might say:

• По утрам мне хочется... = In the mornings, I feel like...

И simply links the two infinitives:

• потянуться
• открыть окно

So the structure is:

мне хочется [потянуться] и [открыть окно]

In English: I feel like stretching and opening the window.

Because both actions depend on the same хочется, Russian does not need to repeat it.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, though the original sentence is very natural.

Original: Утром мне хочется потянуться и открыть окно.

Other possible orders:

• Мне утром хочется потянуться и открыть окно.
• Потянуться и открыть окно утром мне хочется.

These alternatives may shift emphasis slightly, but the meaning stays basically the same. The original version sounds smooth and neutral.

A natural stress pattern is:

У́тром мне хо́чется потяну́ться и откры́ть окно́.

Word stress:

• у́тром
• хо́чется
• потяну́ться
• откры́ть
• окно́

This is useful because Russian stress is not always predictable, and several of these words have mobile or non-obvious stress.