Często chodzę do szkoły.

Because chodzę is the habitual / repeated-motion form.

• chodzę = I go / I walk regularly, often, habitually
• idę = I am going / walking right now in one specific direction

So:

• Często chodzę do szkoły. = I often go to school.
• Idę do szkoły. = I’m going to school (now).

This is one of the most important motion-verb differences in Polish.

It can mean either, depending on context.

In this sentence, Często chodzę do szkoły, the most natural English translation is usually I often go to school.

However, chodzić literally refers to movement on foot, so in some contexts it can feel closer to walk. Still, in everyday Polish, it is often used more broadly for going somewhere regularly.

So the sentence may suggest regular trips to school, and sometimes it may imply going on foot, but the exact English wording depends on context.

Często means often.

It is placed at the beginning here because that is a very natural word order in Polish. Polish word order is more flexible than English, so adverbs like często can move around.

For example, all of these are possible:

• Często chodzę do szkoły.
• Chodzę często do szkoły.
• Do szkoły często chodzę.

They do not all sound equally neutral, though.
The most standard, neutral version is:

• Często chodzę do szkoły.

In Polish, subject pronouns are often omitted because the verb ending already shows who is doing the action.

Here, chodzę ends in -ę, which tells you the subject is I.

So:

• chodzę = I go / I walk regularly

You can add ja for emphasis:

• Ja często chodzę do szkoły.

But normally, just Często chodzę do szkoły is enough.

Because the preposition do requires the genitive case in Polish.

The basic dictionary form is:

• szkoła = school

After do, it changes to the genitive singular:

• do szkoły = to school

So:

• szkoła → nominative
• szkoły → genitive

This is very common in Polish:

• do domu = to the house / home
• do pracy = to work
• do szkoły = to school

It is genitive singular.

The noun szkoła is a feminine noun, and after do it changes into the genitive form:

• szkoła → szkoły

So in this sentence:

• do szkoły = to school

This is not plural here.
Even though szkoły can also mean schools in another context, here the preposition do makes it clear that it is genitive singular.

Yes. Polish word order is flexible, because grammatical relationships are often shown by endings rather than position.

Possible versions include:

• Często chodzę do szkoły.
• Do szkoły często chodzę.
• Chodzę często do szkoły.

But they may sound slightly different in emphasis:

• Często chodzę do szkoły. = neutral
• Do szkoły często chodzę. = emphasizes to school
• Chodzę często do szkoły. = possible, but a bit less neutral

So learners should usually stick with Często chodzę do szkoły unless they have a reason to emphasize something.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• często ≈ CHEN-sto
• chodzę ≈ HO-dzheh / HO-jzeh (depending on how closely you imitate Polish sounds)
• do ≈ do
• szkoły ≈ SHKO-wih

A few helpful notes:

• cz sounds like English ch in chop
• sz sounds like English sh
• ch sounds like a hard h
• ł sounds like English w
• ę is a nasal vowel; before some consonants it may sound a bit like en/em

You do not need to pronounce it exactly like the spelling might suggest in English. Polish spelling is consistent, but the sounds are different from English.

It describes a general habit.

• chodzę in this sentence means I go regularly / I often go
• często also reinforces that this is something repeated

So this is not about one trip happening right now.
It is about a repeated action in your life or routine.

Usually, no.

Chodzić do szkoły means to go to school in the sense of physically going there regularly. In context, it can also imply being a school student / attending school, but the most direct meaning is still go to school.

So:

• Często chodzę do szkoły. = I often go to school

If the context is about someone’s education, English might sometimes phrase it differently, but learners should first understand it as go to school regularly.

In many contexts, Polish prefers a different verb if you want to stress the means of transport.

• chodzę do szkoły = I go to school regularly, often with a sense of repeated going and often on foot
• jeżdżę do szkoły = I go to school regularly by vehicle / I commute to school

So if you want to say specifically that you travel by bus, car, tram, etc., jeżdżę may be better.

But if the means of transport is not important, people may still use chodzę do szkoły in a broad everyday sense.

In this sentence, Polish simply says do szkoły. Polish has no articles like a or the.

English says to school without the when talking about the normal institution or purpose:

• I go to school
• I’m at school

That is just an English pattern. Polish does not have to make that article choice at all, because Polish nouns do not use articles.