"Yes, my children go to school."
Translation:Да, мои дети ходят в школу.
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Shouldnt we have used идите instead of ходят. As the children are going to school they are not walking around the school. As i get it the meaning of ходят is to walk around or to walk in multiple directions.
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Shouldnt we have used идите instead of ходят.
Идите is the plural (or formal) imperative of идти. It is not the word you were thinking of - you meant идут.
My children go to school carries a connotation in English that my children attend school. That same connotation exists in the Russian phrase, Мои дети ходят в школу. In such a construct, ходят = go.
My children are going to school carries a connotation in English that my children are actively on their way to school. That same connotation exists in the Russian phrase, Мои дети идут в школу. In such a construct, идут = are going.
Ходить indicates habitual action (like regular attendance as above) or a generic description of walking. Мои дети ходят on its own might simply indicate that my children walk - not crawl.
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Audio sounds like ходит & ходят are pronounced the same. I've long wondered if those unstressed endings are supposed to sound the same, or if I'd be laughed at if I pronounced "-yat" at the end of the latter. I've read about я sounding as и or ы in some places, but was wondering if the rules are consistent.
Why is school in the genitive case instead of the prepositional case?
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Please review the declension table here (https://en.openrussian.org/ru/школа) to review школа's cases. You will find it is not genitive.
It is not prepositional because в школе (prepositional) would mean that the children walk inside the school, not that they go to the school.
