"We went to a park."

Translation: Ми ходили у парк.

[SmithUA01]

why is "їздили" wrong here?

[manat297076]

Most likely, with cities everywhere too big to walk everywhere, one would rather їздили" до парку, than khodyly, and definitely до парку sounds more Ukrainian than u park. I used to be bilingual with Ukrainian one of my languages, but after living abroad for years, have to take this class to renew my Ukrainian.

[GeneM.]

Not a native Ukrainian speaker, but according to the book Beginner's Ukrainian, Їздити means "to go somewhere by vehicle." Ходити means "to go" so in this sentence I would guess that they could have just walked to the movies. I'm not sure why Ukrainian works this way. A native speaker can probably give a better answer.

[manat297076]

It is a Slavic thing to distinguish, if one walks somewhere or uses a transportation, with different words for the both notions. Having 4 Slavic languages behind my belt and learning the 5th and 6th of them, I dare generalize about that.

[Halyna_ua]

I am native Ukrainian speaker)))). Why wrong...I don't know. Try to write to report.

[Dabug-CZ]

Why was "Ми йшли в парк" (the verb йшли) marked as wrong?