Questions & Answers about Мы идём дальше по тихой улице.
Why is it идём and not ходим here?
Russian has two main verbs for “to go (on foot)”:
- идти – one-direction, a single movement in progress (like “to be going/walking right now” in one direction)
- ходить – multi-direction, habitual or back-and-forth movement (“to go (there and back / regularly)”)
Мы идём дальше по тихой улице describes one concrete movement that is happening now, in one direction along the street. So you must use идти → мы идём.
Мы ходим по тихой улице would mean something like “We (generally) walk along the quiet street” (regularly, as a habit), not “we are (right now) walking further along the quiet street.”
What exactly is the form идём? Person, number, tense, aspect?
Идём is:
- person: 1st person
- number: plural
- tense: present
- aspect: imperfective (ongoing, process)
Full present-tense forms of идти (to go on foot, one direction):
- я иду
- ты идёшь
- он / она / оно идёт
- мы идём
- вы идёте
- они идут
So мы идём = “we go / we are going (on foot).”
Why does идём have ё, and do Russians always write it that way?