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This is wrong. it's "By, we are going to (our) grandma's", as I said in my answer :/
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Not really. This sentence can be about physically moving towards your grandmother (like in a crowd, but also in a general sense). "Grandma's" specifically means "grandma's place/house". The Russian sentence can mean both, but the given translation is more direct.
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I'm not too sure how consistently duolingo treats it, but by convention, it seems to go "bye" as "пока" (informal) and "goodbye" as "до свидания/прощайте" (slightly less informal).
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In that case, 'going OVER to' or 'going TOWARDS' would be better. Still, 'grandma's' should at least be accepted. Also, i hate the term 'grandma' (a little too 'little red riding hood' for my liking) but it won't accept 'gran'! Haha
You are correct. Though the sentence refers to a hrandma who is not at home but outside waiting for someone to come toward her
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I put "to grandma's place" because I thought duo would want that (it does for other sentences like this), and it wasn't accepted! Reported.
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Grandma is in locative, i interpret that as 'to grandma' wherever she is at the moment and not necessarily her home
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"Bye, we are going to grandma" or "Bye, we are going to grandmother" would sound odd in English if you're trying to say you are going to your grandma's home. This answer here is probably a literal rendering of the Russian.
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I put "Bye, we are going towards Grandma" and this was flagged as incorrect. The correct answer was "to Grandma". I thought that was the distinction between «к» and «в», is that not the case?
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You'd have to remove the comma and it would sound like an incomplete sentence (unless it was an answer to a question or something). I also wouldn't translate it as "meanwhile", but just "while", in that context.
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i honestly don't remember, but it said that grandmother wasn't fine, sorry.
In the same theme, I put "Bye, we are going to granny's" which was rejected. In British English, granny and grandma are equally used.
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every single other sentence in this lesson marked me wrong for translating идём (or other conjugations) as "going" and saying it's supposed to be "walking", so when I got to this sentence I finally remembered to say "walking" and it was marked as wrong and said it was supposed to be "going". Which is correct?
