Я хочу иметь свой дом.

Хотеть is the dictionary form, or infinitive, meaning to want.

In a full sentence, you usually need a conjugated form:

• я хочу = I want
• ты хочешь = you want
• он / она хочет = he / she wants
• мы хотим = we want
• вы хотите = you want
• они хотят = they want

So я хочу иметь свой дом uses the correct 1st person singular form: хочу.

After хочу (I want), Russian normally uses an infinitive to say what someone wants to do.

Pattern:

• Я хочу читать. = I want to read.
• Я хочу спать. = I want to sleep.
• Я хочу иметь свой дом. = I want to have my own house.

So иметь stays in the infinitive because it depends on хочу.

This is a very common learner question.

Russian often prefers свой when the possessor is the same as the subject of the sentence.

Here:

• Я = the subject
• the house belongs to me
• so Russian naturally uses свой

So:

• Я хочу иметь свой дом. = I want to have my own house.

If you said мой дом, it would still be understandable, but свой is more natural here because it refers back to the subject я.

A useful rule:

• Use свой when it means one’s own and refers to the subject.
• Use мой / твой / его / её when you want to be more explicit, contrastive, or when the possessor is not the subject.

Compare:

• Я люблю свою работу. = I love my job.
• Он любит свою работу. = He loves his job.
• Он любит её работу. = He loves her job.

In this sentence, свой often feels closer to my own than just plain my.

So свой дом suggests:

• a house of my own
• my own place
• something personally belonging to me, not rented or shared

That is why Я хочу иметь свой дом often sounds like:

• I want to have my own house rather than just
• I want to have my house

Here дом is the direct object of иметь (to have), so it is in the accusative case.

But дом is:

• masculine
• singular
• inanimate

For many masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular looks exactly like the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: дом
• accusative: дом

That is why you see свой дом, not a different ending.

Compare with a feminine noun:

• квартира → Я хочу иметь свою квартиру Here the accusative changes:
• квартира → квартиру

Because свой must agree with дом.

Дом is:

• masculine
• singular

So the adjective/pronoun also has to be:

• masculine singular → свой

Compare:

• свой дом = masculine
• своя квартира = feminine
• своё место = neuter
• свои друзья = plural

This is normal adjective agreement in Russian.

It is grammatically correct, but it can sound a bit formal, bookish, or slightly less conversational than some alternatives.

A native speaker might more naturally say:

• Я хочу свой дом.
• Я хочу, чтобы у меня был свой дом.
• Я хочу иметь собственный дом. (more formal/emphatic)

Nuance:

• Я хочу иметь свой дом is clear and correct.
• In everyday speech, Russian often avoids иметь more than English uses to have.

So this sentence is good for learning grammar, but in casual spoken Russian, people may choose another phrasing.

They are completely different words/forms.

• дом = house, home
• домой = homeward, to home, going home

Examples:

• У меня есть дом. = I have a house.
• Я иду домой. = I am going home.

So in Я хочу иметь свой дом, the word must be дом, because it is a thing you want to have, not a direction.

It can suggest either, depending on context.

Дом can mean:

• a house as a building
• a home as one’s own place

In this sentence, many learners translate it as:

• I want to have my own house but
• I want a home of my own also captures the feeling well.

If you specifically meant an apartment, Russian would usually use квартира instead:

• Я хочу иметь свою квартиру.

Russian has no articles.

So дом can mean:

• a house
• the house
• sometimes just house/home in a general sense

The exact meaning comes from context.

That is why:

• Я хочу иметь свой дом can be understood as
• I want to have my own house without any separate word for a.

Yes. Russian word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral order here is:

• Я хочу иметь свой дом.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Свой дом я хочу иметь.
• Иметь свой дом я хочу.

These versions are more marked and sound more literary or emphatic. For a learner, the original order is the safest and most neutral.

Я is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence.

The basic structure is:

• Я = subject, nominative
• хочу = verb
• иметь = infinitive
• свой дом = object of иметь

So the sentence is built very straightforwardly: I + want + to have + my own house.