Thread: Case Question

I am really confused. Could anyone one write some examples?

Originally Posted by Lampada

Я бы ожидала какой-нибудь глагол после хочется: Мне хочется поесть, поспать, пойти погулять.

А как же "хочется то ли демократии, то ли осетрины с хреном" (не помню точную цитату, кажется, Салтыков-Щедрин) ?

Originally Posted by impulse

I am really confused. Could anyone one write some examples?

Я хочу чаю. Я хочу чая. (uncountable)
Я хочу яблоко. Я хочу яблока - неправильно. (countable)
Я хочу пирожки. Я хочу пирожков (this one is tricky. I can imagine someone saying this, but personally I won't do it. But I can say "Мне хочется пирожков", so I think "Я хочу пирожков" is also possible). (plural, when countable acquires some qualtites of uncountable (infinity)).

But you can say Я хочу пирога meaning the part of it. Пирог goes as uncountable as normally no one can take the whole thing at once. So in this case if you want some part of something - some of really uncountable things (tea, water, soup, etc.) or some of really big thing (that it is obvious you want a part, not the whole one).
Examples of big things - пирог, торт, окорок, арбуз... I can't think of anything that's not edible