Jeśli pójdziemy tędy, dojdziemy szybciej do domu.

In Polish, when you talk about a real future possibility after jeśli (if), you normally use the future tense in both parts:

• jeśli pójdziemy = if we go
• dojdziemy = we will get / reach

This is different from English, where we usually say:

• If we go this way, we’ll get home faster

English uses a present form after if, but Polish does not do that here. So jeśli pójdziemy... is completely normal.

Pójdziemy is the perfective future of pójść (to go in the sense of a single movement, setting off and going somewhere).

Polish often uses a perfective verb when talking about a completed future action:

• pójdziemy = we will go / we will set off
• idziemy usually means we are going or sometimes we go

Here, the speaker means something like:

• If we go this way...

That is a one-time action in the future, so pójdziemy fits better than idziemy.

Dojdziemy comes from dojść, which means to get to / reach on foot.

So:

• dojdziemy do domu = we will get home / reach home on foot

Why not the others?

• będziemy dochodzić is an imperfective future and sounds more like an ongoing process: we will be making our way / approaching
• przyjdziemy means we will come, but it focuses more on arrival from the speaker’s perspective, not specifically reaching a destination by walking
• dojść do domu is very natural for get home on foot

Since the sentence is about the result of taking a route, dojdziemy is the most natural choice.

Tędy means this way, through here, or along this route.

It is an adverb, not a noun phrase. So it does not mean literally this road or this path, though that may be the practical meaning in context.

Examples:

• Nie idź tędy. = Don’t go this way.
• Najkrócej będzie tędy. = The shortest way is this way.

In your sentence, Jeśli pójdziemy tędy... means:

• If we go this way / if we go by this route...

Polish can use to in some if... then... structures, but it is often omitted, especially in natural everyday speech.

So both of these are possible:

• Jeśli pójdziemy tędy, dojdziemy szybciej do domu.
• Jeśli pójdziemy tędy, to dojdziemy szybciej do domu.

Adding to can make the structure feel a bit more explicit, like then in English, but it is not required.

Szybciej means faster / more quickly and modifies dojdziemy.

The word order here is very natural:

• dojdziemy szybciej do domu = we’ll get home faster

Polish word order is more flexible than English, but different placements can slightly change emphasis.

For example:

• Dojdziemy szybciej do domu. = neutral
• Szybciej dojdziemy do domu. = stronger emphasis on faster
• Do domu dojdziemy szybciej. = stronger emphasis on home

So the original sentence has a normal, unmarked word order.

Domu is the genitive singular of dom (house / home).

After the preposition do, Polish uses the genitive case:

• do domu = to home / to the house
• do szkoły = to school
• do miasta = to the city

In this sentence, do domu means home or to the house, depending on context.

In this sentence, home is usually the best translation.

• do domu often means home, especially when talking about returning where you live
• literally, dom means house, but in many contexts Polish uses dom where English would naturally say home

So:

• dojdziemy szybciej do domu = we’ll get home faster

That sounds more natural in English than we’ll reach the house faster, unless the context is specifically about a building.

Because the sentence begins with a subordinate clause introduced by jeśli (if).

In Polish, clauses like this are separated by a comma:

• Jeśli pójdziemy tędy, dojdziemy szybciej do domu.

This is standard punctuation. In English, you also usually put a comma after an initial if clause:

• If we go this way, we’ll get home faster.

Sometimes, but jeśli is safer and clearer here.

• jeśli = if
• jak can sometimes mean if/when in informal speech, but it has other meanings too, especially how

So:

• Jeśli pójdziemy tędy... is standard and unambiguous.
• Jak pójdziemy tędy... may be heard in speech in some contexts or regions, but it is less neutral for learners.

If you want to say if, use jeśli.

It expresses a real possibility with a likely result, not absolute certainty.

The structure suggests:

• If we choose this route, the result will be that we get home faster.

This is a normal factual/predictive if sentence, not a hypothetical or unreal one.

If Polish wanted a more hypothetical idea like If we went this way, we would get home faster, it would use a different structure, for example:

• Gdybyśmy poszli tędy, doszlibyśmy szybciej do domu.

So your original sentence is about a realistic future option.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• pójdziemy ≈ POY-jdzhye-my
• dojdziemy ≈ DOY-jdzhye-my

A few useful points:

• ój sounds roughly like oy
• dzi before a vowel sounds like a soft j / dzh sound
• stress in Polish is usually on the second-to-last syllable:
  • poj-DZIE-my
  • doj-DZIE-my

So the stress is on -dzie- in both verbs.

Not quite. They are related, but they do different jobs in the sentence.

• pójdziemy = we will go / we will take that way
• dojdziemy = we will get to / reach

So the sentence is not repeating the same idea twice. It means:

1. If we go this way
2. we’ll reach home faster

Using two different verbs helps Polish express both the movement and the result.