I was watching a video about the most frequent mistakes Brazilians make speaking English and the first mistake was saying "Do you want to try?" instead of "Do you want to try it?".
I'm a native speaker of American English, and I feel that if you're eating food or doing an activity and you say to someone standing there "Do you want to try?" that it's correct. However, I'm not very strong grammatically, so I'm curious if there's something technically wrong with that.
Best Answer
A transitive verb can have an implied direct object, if the direct object is obvious given context.
Signs make use of this situation frequently. "Do not pass (other vehicles)." etc.
Likewise, the subject of a sentence can also be implied as well.
"Want to try?" is easily understood when spoken directly to another person when you're currently interacting with something they can try (activity, food, etc).
Going off of tchrist's comment, I'd say that English also does the same thing. I'm trying to imagine a situation where it wouldn't apply, but as long as context allows, it would seem acceptable for the object to be implied.