Дома я сразу снял обувь и надел тёплые тапочки.

Yes, дома can mean two different things:

• дома = at home when it is used as an adverb
• дома = houses as the plural of дом

In this sentence, Дома means at home.

So:

• Дома я сразу снял обувь... = At home, I immediately took off my shoes...

This adverb is extremely common in Russian. Compare:

• Я дома. = I’m at home.
• Новые дома. = New houses.

The meaning is usually clear from context.

Putting Дома first sets the scene: as for being at home / once at home.

Russian word order is flexible, so this sentence could be rearranged, for example:

• Я дома сразу снял обувь и надел тёплые тапочки.
• Я сразу снял обувь и надел тёплые тапочки дома.

But Дома at the beginning sounds natural because it gives the setting first and then tells what happened there.

Yes, Russian often drops subject pronouns when they are obvious from the verb or the context.

So you could say:

• Дома сразу снял обувь и надел тёплые тапочки.

That still works, especially in context.

But я is included here to make the subject explicit. It can sound a bit clearer, and sometimes slightly more personal or contrastive.

Сразу means right away, immediately, or straight away.

In this sentence it means the person did this as soon as they got home:

• Дома я сразу снял обувь...
  = At home I immediately took off my shoes...

It often appears near the verb, but Russian allows some movement in word order depending on emphasis.

These are the natural verbs for these actions:

• снять = to take off
• надеть = to put on

So:

• снял обувь = took off footwear / shoes
• надел тапочки = put on slippers

This is the standard pair for clothing and things worn on the body.

This is a very common learner question.

• надеть means to put on something that you wear

  • надеть куртку = put on a jacket
  • надеть тапочки = put on slippers

• одеть usually means to dress someone

  • одеть ребёнка = dress a child

So in this sentence, надел тапочки is correct because the speaker put slippers on himself.

A classic rule learners are taught:

• надеть что? = put on what?
• одеть кого? = dress whom?

These are past tense forms.

In Russian, the past tense is usually built with -л plus gender/number endings:

• masculine: снял, надел
• feminine: сняла, надела
• neuter: сняло, надело
• plural: сняли, надели

So снял and надел tell you that the speaker is masculine, or at least that a masculine subject is being referred to.

If the speaker were female, the sentence would be:

• Дома я сразу сняла обувь и надела тёплые тапочки.

Because обувь is a collective/uncountable noun meaning footwear.

Russian often uses обувь where English would naturally say:

• shoes
• footwear

So:

• снять обувь = take off one’s shoes / footwear

Even though English often uses a plural idea, Russian uses the singular noun обувь.

Also, обувь is a feminine noun.

Both are in the accusative case because they are direct objects of the verbs:

• снял что? → обувь
• надел что? → тапочки

A useful detail:

• обувь is an inanimate feminine noun of the soft-sign type, and its accusative singular looks the same as the nominative singular: обувь
• тапочки is plural and inanimate, so the accusative plural is the same as the nominative plural: тапочки

So the forms do not visibly change here, but they are still accusative by function.

Because тапочки is plural: slippers.

Russian normally talks about slippers as a pair in the plural, just like English often does.

The adjective must agree with the noun in number, gender, and case:

• singular masculine: тёплый
• singular feminine: тёплая
• singular neuter: тёплое
• plural: тёплые

So:

• тёплые тапочки = warm slippers

Since тапочки is plural and inanimate, the accusative plural looks the same as the nominative plural, so you get тёплые тапочки.

Yes.

• тапочки is the normal plural form meaning slippers
• тапочка is singular: one slipper
• тапки is also a plural form and is common in everyday speech

Very roughly:

• тапочки can sound a bit softer, more neutral, or slightly affectionate
• тапки can sound a bit more colloquial

In this sentence, тёплые тапочки sounds very natural.

It is not grammatically necessary, but it adds a natural detail.

• тапочки = slippers
• тёплые тапочки = warm slippers

This suggests cozy indoor slippers, which fits the situation well: the person got home, took off outdoor footwear, and put on warm house slippers.

So it makes the image more vivid and natural.

Yes, ё matters in pronunciation.

тёплые is pronounced roughly like TYOP-ly-ye.

Important point:

• ё is always stressed
• it sounds like yo

In many printed texts, Russian ё is often written as е, so you may sometimes see теплые, but it is still pronounced тёплые.

That is very common in Russian spelling.

In this sentence, perfective verbs are the most natural choice:

• снял
• надел

They present the actions as completed, one-time events: the person got home, took off footwear, and put on slippers.

If you used imperfective forms like снимал or надевал, the meaning would usually shift. It might sound like:

• repeated action
• process
• background description
• habitual behavior in the right context

For a simple completed sequence of actions, Russian strongly prefers the perfective forms used here.