"Zamykasz drzwi twojego domu."
Translation:You are closing the door to your house.
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One would normall say "door of the house". "the door to X" is usually only used when X is the place on the other side of door, eg "That is the door to the kitchen".
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Yes but it's highlighting one door as being more significant than others as it is very unlikely to only have one door in a house. With only one door defining the house then it is most likely a door to the exterior.
I, as a native English speaker would say 'to your house' every time unless it wasn't your house at which time I would say 'to the house'. 'Of' isn't really used in this context in my experience
Yes, it will sound a lot better actually. Unfortunately the course introduces "swój" quite late and there are a lot of not-that-natural sentences because of that.
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So 'zamykasz' means 'you are closing' And why not 'you close the door...' in present simple? Well, how that would be in polish ?
Yes, that would be "w twoim domu", although that seems to me like a strange thing to say - why not specify to which room?
"twojego domu" implies this is the main entrance door.
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Since "door"is plural in polish how would you say: "you are closing THE DOORS of your house"??
"you close your home door" is not what any native English speaker would say
Even if, the main translation is "You are closing the door to your house."
Well, it misses the word 'domu' completely and not every door to the house has to be from the front side...
Is there a separate verb for lock . My wife seems to use zamykac for both which can be confusing.
You can simply use "zamykać"/"zamknąć", but you can be more specific and add "na klucz" (lock with a key) or "na zasuwę/zasuwkę" (lock with a latch).
It requires the accusative case. With drzwi, accusative and genitive are indistinguishable.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drzwi#Declension
Twojego domu takes genitive, because the literal translation for this sentence is ...the door of your house. It's just not how we would normally say it in English.
This was mentioned earlier, but was not explained: what is the difference between zamikać and zamknąć?
"zamykać" is an imperfective verb, "zamknąć" is perfective.
A perfective verb denotes completing an action (once) and by definition it makes it impossible to use it in the Present Tense.
An imperfective verb either focuses on the process (it takes a few seconds to close the door, at least to lock it) or implies performing the action several times.