"Idziemy do naszej babci."
Translation:We are walking to our grandmother's.
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It can be "going", true. And obviously it works. But if you used "driving", then you sure need to use "jedziemy" in Polish.
Since 'babci' is both singluar genitive and locative, could this mean both "we are walking to our grandmother" and "we are walking to our grandmother's [e.g. house]"?
It's short for "grandmother's place", "grandmother's house", or similar.
oh I get it but the next word is not exist, but its in the "mean" of sentence right?
I'm pretty sure noone wouldn't say that way in English. "We are going to..." is much more plausible
It emphasizes the 'on foot' (walking) part but it's still correct, and we think it's good to show that the "going" is surely not the only translation of forms of "iść" and in fact not the clearest one, given that "iść" means going on foot.
Well, maybe I was a bit ambiguous. While I agree with the fact that given translation is technically correct (even though I hardly imagine anyone in real life to speak that way), I strongly disagree with application's "opinion" that "we are going to our grandmother" is incorrect translation of given polish phrase.
In that case next time please provide a screenshot so we can check what happened :)
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So does this sentence always mean to her house?
Suppose their grandmother is in another room, would the same sentence work?
Good question. No, it doesn't always mean 'to her house', it's more of "to where she is", which we could say usually is "the place where she lives" but right now it may indeed be 'another room'. Or (hopefully not) the hospital...