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Все одинокие люди хотят найти друзей.

Все одинокие люди хотят найти друзей.
All lonely people want to find friends.
From Lesson 167:Alone and only (один, одна, одни)·Russian

Questions & Answers about Все одинокие люди хотят найти друзей.

The current lesson is about один (alone). Why does this sentence use одинокие instead of одни?
Одни means "alone" or "by oneself" in a physical sense (for example, "They live alone"). Одинокие is an adjective that means "lonely" (an emotional state) or "single" (relationship status). Here, it describes people who feel lonely, not necessarily people who are just physically by themselves.
Why does the word for friends take the form друзей here?
It is the direct object of the verb найти (to find), so it must be in the accusative case. Because friends are living beings (animate), the plural accusative copies the plural genitive form. The nominative plural is друзья, and its genitive/accusative form is друзей.
Why use the perfective verb найти (to find) after хотят instead of the imperfective находить?
The sentence focuses on the result of the action: the successful, completed act of finding friends. After verbs expressing desire like хотеть (to want), we typically use the perfective infinitive when the goal is to achieve a specific result rather than to describe an ongoing or repeated process.
Why is the first word Все instead of Всё?
Все is the plural form meaning "all" or "everybody," which is required here to agree with the plural noun люди (people). Всё is the neuter singular form, which means "everything."

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