Неужели ты не хочешь банан на завтрак?

Неужели adds a feeling of surprise, disbelief, or mild shock. It does not mean really in the simple factual sense; it is more like:

• Really?
• Can it really be that ... ?
• You mean ... ?
• Is it possible that ... ?

So Неужели ты не хочешь банан на завтрак? is not just a neutral question. It sounds more like:

• You mean you don’t want a banana for breakfast?
• Do you really not want a banana for breakfast?

It shows the speaker expected the opposite.

Because they do different jobs.

• неужели does not negate the sentence. It adds surprised/incredulous emotion.
• не is the actual negation, attached to хочешь: не хочешь = don’t want.

So:

• Неужели ты хочешь банан на завтрак? = Do you really want a banana for breakfast? / Can it be that you want a banana for breakfast?
• Неужели ты не хочешь банан на завтрак? = Do you really not want a banana for breakfast?

Yes, it could be left out.

Russian often omits subject pronouns because the verb ending already tells you the subject:

• хочешь = you want (singular/informal)

So both are possible:

• Неужели ты не хочешь банан на завтрак?
• Неужели не хочешь банан на завтрак?

Including ты can make the sentence feel a bit more direct or emphatic. It can also help with clarity or contrast, especially in conversation.

Also, ты is the informal singular you. If you were speaking politely or to more than one person, you would use вы and хотите.

It is in the accusative case, because it is the direct object of хочешь.

However, for many inanimate masculine nouns in the singular, the accusative looks exactly like the nominative. So:

• nominative: банан
• accusative: банан

That is why you do not see a change here.

Compare with an animate masculine noun, where accusative usually matches genitive:

• Я вижу банан. = I see a banana.
• Я вижу брата. = I see my brother.

So банан is accusative here, but it just happens to look unchanged.

Because Russian has no articles like a/an/the.

So банан can mean:

• a banana
• the banana

Which one is meant depends on context.

In this sentence, English will normally use a banana:

• Do you really not want a banana for breakfast?

На завтрак is a very common Russian expression meaning for breakfast.

Literally, на often means for in food/meal contexts:

• на завтрак = for breakfast
• на обед = for lunch
• на ужин = for dinner

So банан на завтрак means a banana for breakfast.

This is just the normal idiomatic way to say it.

Russian often leaves that idea implied when it is obvious from context.

So:

• хочешь банан? literally = do you want a banana?
• but in context it naturally means do you want to eat a banana?

Since на завтрак already makes the eating context clear, adding есть is unnecessary.

You could say:

• Неужели ты не хочешь есть банан на завтрак?

but that usually sounds heavier and less natural in an ordinary situation.

Yes, it is natural.

It sounds like something someone might say if they are surprised that the other person does not want a banana for breakfast.

For example, maybe the speaker thinks bananas are an obvious or normal breakfast food, so the refusal surprises them.

A more neutral version would be:

• Ты не хочешь банан на завтрак? = Don’t you want a banana for breakfast?

Adding неужели makes it more emotional and more surprised.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, though different orders can sound slightly different in emphasis.

For example:

• Неужели ты не хочешь банан на завтрак?
• Ты не хочешь банан на завтрак?
• Неужели не хочешь банан на завтрак?

The version with неужели at the beginning is very natural, because it sets the tone of surprise right away.

Russian often uses word order to highlight emotion, topic, or focus, but not every change creates a big difference. In this sentence, the main difference is whether the question sounds:

• neutral,
• surprised,
• or especially emphatic.

It is stronger than a plain Do you not want a banana for breakfast?

A good natural English feeling would be:

• You really don’t want a banana for breakfast?
• You mean you don’t want a banana for breakfast?
• Do you really not want a banana for breakfast?

The speaker is not just asking for information. They are reacting with surprise.

The usual word stress is:

• неужЕли
• ты
• не хОчешь
• банАн
• на зАвтрак

So approximately:

ne-u-ZHE-li ty ne KHO-chesh ba-NAN na ZAV-trak

Sentence intonation will usually rise in a way typical of a question, especially near the end, though real spoken intonation can vary depending on emotion.

Yes. The structure is very common:

Неужели ты не хочешь + [food] + на завтрак?

For example:

• Неужели ты не хочешь кашу на завтрак? = Do you really not want porridge for breakfast?
• Неужели ты не хочешь яйцо на завтрак? = Do you really not want an egg for breakfast?
• Неужели ты не хочешь кофе на завтрак? = Do you really not want coffee for breakfast?

So this sentence is a useful model for making similar surprised questions.