"Jenny does not want to go to the store."
Translation:Дженни не хочет ходить в магазин.
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yeah should be correct. I'd say "не хочет ходить" means the person generally doesn't want to go somewhere (at anytime, any day).. like "my son doesn't want to go to school".
compared to "не хочет пойти" is more like someone doesn't want to do something in the near future (once) - like "my son doesn't want to go to school today" or "he doesn't want to go shopping right now"
A native or fluent speaker might correct me, but I have an idea why it isn't. Ходить can mean not only a habitual trip but also a round trip. Я хочу пойти в кино makes sense because really you want to be at the theater enjoying a movie, so the return trip is irrelevant; whereas one typically only wants to go to the store because they need to buy something and bring it back home. So it's more appropriate to say я не хочу ходить в магазин: "I don't want to make a trip to the store."
I would love to hear more about this, too. The reason I think that ходить should not work in the context you give is that ходить is an imperfective verb, and in your context, we would want a perfective verb and would add the prefix с- which turns a multidirectional imperfective verb of motion into a perfective one-time round-trip perfective verb, e.g., мне надо сходить в магазин = I have to go to the store (i.e., make a trip to the store). I used to teach Russian, but verbs of motion are notoriously difficult (multi-directional vs. uni-directional, plus imperfective vs. perfective, plus negated vs. not negated).
I think пойти is problematic, because it focuses on setting off, and not the reaching of the store or the round trip.
All this said, the more I think about it, the more my head spins, so take this with a grain of salt, lol.
I think идти is better here. Идти is a determinate motion verb (one direction) whereas ходить is indeterminate (multidirectional or habitual). If we use ходить, I might write the sentence this way: Дженни не хочет ходить в магазин каждый день на работу. This gives a "habitual sense" to meaning. But if we mean just one time, идти is the appropriate choice.
Think about the difference between:
Он ходит в школу. Meaning: he goes to school where he is a student; he studies, etc. The simple present tense in English is appropriate here.
Он идёт в школу. Meaning: He is going to school now, in the direction of the school, possibly for some purpose other than studying... maybe he isn't a student... maybe he's picking up his kid :) The present progressive verb tense is appropriate here: be + base verb-ing.
Он пойдёт в школу. Meaning: He will go to school. Future. Determinate. One direction for some immediate purpose. Does not mean he is a student. Again, maybe he will pick up his kids. Usually, the simple future in English is suitable here: will + base verb.
Он будет ходить в школу. Meaning: He will be going to school. Future. Indeterminate. Habitual. He will be a student. He will attend school in the future. Usually the future progressive in English works here: will + be + base verb-ing
Please do let me know if I've made any mistakes here. Thanks!
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Домόй and дόма (сидеть дόма — to stay at home) are adverbs, therefore prepositions don't use with them.
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Does ходить imply that she does not like shopping in general, rather than just not wanting to go on this particular occasion?