Он ненавидит ждать.

Because after ненавидит (hates), Russian can use an infinitive to express what someone hates doing.

So:

• Он ненавидит ждать. = He hates waiting / He hates to wait

Here, ждать means to wait, not is waiting. The whole infinitive phrase ждать functions like the object of ненавидит.

Ненавидеть is the dictionary form, meaning to hate.

In the sentence, we need the form that matches он (he), so the verb must be conjugated:

• я ненавижу = I hate
• ты ненавидишь = you hate
• он/она ненавидит = he/she hates
• мы ненавидим = we hate
• вы ненавидите = you hate
• они ненавидят = they hate

So он ненавидит means he hates.

Russian often uses an infinitive where English uses a gerund (waiting) or infinitive (to wait).

English:

• He hates waiting
• He hates to wait

Russian:

• Он ненавидит ждать.

So Russian does not need a special -ing form here. The infinitive ждать covers that idea.

Ждать is imperfective, and that makes sense here because the sentence talks about the activity in a general way: he hates waiting.

• ждать = to wait, to be waiting, to wait in general
• подождать = to wait for a while / to wait a bit, usually perfective

So:

• Он ненавидит ждать. = He hates waiting.
  This is the natural general statement.

If you say:

• Он ненавидит подождать.

that sounds unnatural in standard usage, because perfective verbs usually do not fit well after verbs like love, hate, like, when you mean a general habit or attitude.

It can mean either one in English.

Russian Он ненавидит ждать covers both:

• He hates waiting
• He hates to wait

English chooses between gerund and infinitive, but Russian simply uses the infinitive ждать.

Yes, often it can be omitted if the context already makes the subject clear.

• Ненавидит ждать.

By itself, this sounds incomplete in many contexts, but in conversation or a larger passage it can work if everyone already knows who is being talked about.

Russian often drops subject pronouns more freely than English when the verb form already shows the person, or when context makes the subject obvious.

Still, Он ненавидит ждать is the safer full sentence for learners.

No object is required here.

Ждать can be used:

1. Without an object, meaning simply to wait

   • Он ненавидит ждать. = He hates waiting.

2. With an object, meaning to wait for someone/something

   • Он ждёт друга. = He is waiting for a friend.
   • Он ждёт автобус. = He is waiting for the bus.

So in your sentence, ждать is used in the general intransitive sense: just to wait.

Traditionally, ждать often takes the genitive case, especially in more formal or traditional grammar:

• ждать друга / ждать друга?
  This is where learners notice variation.

In modern Russian, both accusative and genitive can appear with ждать, depending on the noun, style, and nuance. For many everyday examples, learners will often encounter the accusative-looking form with animate masculine nouns and many common objects.

The important point for this sentence is that there is no object at all, so you do not need to worry about case here.

Yes. Ненавидеть is a strong verb and usually means to hate quite directly.

So:

• Он ненавидит ждать. sounds like He really hates waiting, not just He doesn’t like waiting.

If you want something softer, Russian might use:

• Он не любит ждать. = He doesn’t like waiting.

That is often more common in everyday speech if the speaker does not want to sound so intense.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible.

The neutral order is:

• Он ненавидит ждать.

But you may also see:

• Ждать он ненавидит.

This puts extra emphasis on ждать: Waiting is what he hates.

Or:

• Ненавидит он ждать.

This can sound marked or expressive, depending on context.

For learners, the basic order Он ненавидит ждать is the best one to use first.

It is stressed like this:

• ненавИдит

Stress falls on И.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• nye-na-VEE-dit

And ждать is one syllable, stressed on the vowel:

• ждать = roughly zhdat’

The final ь is not pronounced as a separate sound; it softens the preceding consonant.

Yes. In fact, that is the most natural interpretation.

• Он ненавидит ждать.

usually means He hates waiting in general, as a habit or characteristic.

It does not normally mean He is hating waiting right now in the English progressive sense. Russian present tense here is simply a general present.

If you wanted to emphasize a current situation, Russian would usually add context, for example:

• Он сейчас ненавидит ждать в этой очереди. = He really hates waiting in this line right now.

Yes, but it would sound different.

For example:

• Он ненавидит ожидание. = He hates waiting / He hates the act of waiting.

This is more abstract or bookish. The natural everyday way is:

• Он ненавидит ждать.

So learners should usually prefer the infinitive version here.