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"Idziesz do domu".
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Either you missed some valid point ar your teacher is really incompetent. Yes both chodzisz and idziesz are very common words used in every day language. they both can mean walk or go.
You walk home can in theory be translated into both "Idziesz do domu" and "chodzisz do domu". But they mean very different things. just like you go and you are walking mean different things.
Chodzisz - means you walk/ go usually, habitually. in a different sentence it could also mean you are walking without direction. As English language describes things that happen often/habitually using Simple tenses, the course enforces "chodzisz=you walk/go"
idziesz- means you are walking/going at the moment, or you will be going one time in the near future. As English language describes things that happen at the moment using continous tenses the course enforces idziesz =you are walking/going.
That's true, but the English is not so prescriptive. Referring to the case where someone attends a school, so they "chodzą do szkoły", an English speaker may use "do go", or "are going".
The questions: "Where are you going to school?", and "Where do you go to school?" would both require chodzić, not iść because both English expressions mean regularly and/or habitually. While "Where are you going to school?" in the sense of doing it now (so using iść) is possible, but I can't think of a valid example of using it that way.
In Polish language exist one quite small category of iterative verbs. Verbs that suggest habitual or repetitive actions. Chodzić is one of them.
Idę do szkoły - I'm going (I am walking) to school
Chodzę do szkoły - I attend a school
Idziesz do domu - You are walking home
Chodzisz do domu - You walk home (You usually walks home instead taking a bus).
Other verbs with this functionality are i.a: płynąć vs pływać (to swim/to sail), lecieć vs latać (to fly), mówić vs mawiać (to say), siedzieć vs (prze)siadywać, widzieć vs widywać
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I still don't understand why "you are walking home" is not an acceptable answer for "chodzisz do domu".
Polish is not the problem here, it's English. Of course "to go to" is also correct, but if you read Jellei's comment carefully, you will notice that there is an additional decisive factor involved: the noun 'home'.
According to the iweb corpus (link below), 'to go home' occurs exactly 1421(!) times more frequently than 'to go to home', which is a clear indication that the latter is just a mistake which happens from time to time.
I see what you mean. Maybe it is wrong what we use in English but since the mistake is often done, it doesn't sound so wrong. But; What about ''You go to YOUR home, I go to MINE.'' In this sentence: when we add pronouns and try to remove ''to''out; it becomes: ''you go your home, I go mine''. and this still got me have some doubts about it.
Of course, this might be subjective, but I wouldn't consider a usage ratio of 1:1421 to be an indicator that it's a common mistake. Let me help you visualise it:
Let's assume, that you hear this phrase once a day, every single day in your life. Statistically speaking, it will take almost 4 years, until you hear the incorrect version of it. Now you decide whether you think it's common or not.
The use of additional words changes the construction and thereby changes the rules. Let's check the corpus:
[form of 'go'] [possessive pronoun] home - 3 results.
[form of 'go'] to [possessive pronoun] home - 191 results.
Here it's the other way round: the use of 'to' is correct and omitting it is a mistake.
You often combine idziesz, idę with a time stamp such as: "Idę teraz": I am going now. "Kiedy idziesz?": When are you going? This is used more often than combining with forms of 'chodzić' in my opinion...but this may just be habitual w/my Polish family. Also iść could imply walking/running/driving/catching public transport etc. But chodzić is very much on foot/walking. In my opinion isć is general in this sense, but it has a 'moment in time' relation implied. Anyway, I've flogged this horse a bit, sorry. But why " You are walking home" is not accepted, I don't understand...