Questions & Answers about Я хочу поужинать дома.
Since this lesson is about the past tense, how would I change this sentence to say I wanted to have dinner at home?
You only change the first verb! You take the dictionary form of the verb to want (хотеть), drop the -ть, and add the regular past tense endings: -л if you are male (Я хотел поужинать дома) or -ла if you are female (Я хотела поужинать дома).
Why does the second verb поужинать end in -ть here?
Because it is in the infinitive (the dictionary form). Just like in English where we say I want to have dinner, in Russian, when you combine a conjugated verb like хочу with another action, that second action verb stays in the infinitive.
Why is the word for home дома instead of just дом?
Дом is the basic noun for a house or a home. However, when you want to express the location of being at home, Russian uses the special fixed form дома. You use дома whenever you are talking about where an action happens.
Is the verb поужинать related to the noun ужин (dinner)?
Yes! Russian often builds verbs directly from nouns. Ужин is the noun for dinner. By adding verb components to it, we get поужинать, which simply means the action of having dinner.
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