Вона приходить додому пізно.

In Ukrainian, the present tense of an imperfective verb often describes a habitual or regular action.

So Вона приходить додому пізно usually means:

• She comes home late
• She tends to come home late
• She is in the habit of coming home late

It is not most naturally understood as one single future event.

If you wanted a one-time future meaning, Ukrainian would normally use the perfective verb:

• Вона прийде додому пізно = She will come home late

These are an aspect pair:

• приходити / приходить = imperfective
• прийти = perfective

Very roughly:

• imperfective focuses on process, repetition, or general fact
• perfective focuses on a completed result or a single whole event

In this sentence, приходить is used because the meaning is habitual: she does this regularly.

Compare:

• Вона приходить додому пізно = she comes home late, regularly
• Вона прийде додому пізно = she will come home late, one time in the future

Додому is the normal, idiomatic word for homeward / to home / home when talking about motion toward home.

So:

• додому = home in the sense of movement toward home
• вдома or дома = at home

Examples:

• Я йду додому = I am going home
• Я вдома = I am at home

You may sometimes see до дому, but додому is the standard form learners should memorize for go/come home.

For most learners, the easiest approach is to treat додому as a fixed adverbial form meaning direction toward home.

Historically, it is connected to до plus a form of дім or дом, but in modern Ukrainian it is best learned as a whole word used in expressions of motion:

• йти додому = go home
• повертатися додому = return home
• приходити додому = come home

So you do not usually need to analyze it the same way as a normal free preposition-plus-noun phrase.

Because here late describes how she comes home, not what she is.

So Ukrainian uses the adverb пізно:

• пізно = late, in a late manner

It modifies the verb приходить.

Compare:

• Вона приходить додому пізно = She comes home late
• Вона пізня would not be the normal way to express this idea

So in this sentence, English late corresponds to a Ukrainian adverb, not an adjective.

Yes. Ukrainian word order is more flexible than English word order. The sentence

• Вона приходить додому пізно

is a neutral, natural order.

Other orders are possible, but they change the emphasis:

• Пізно вона приходить додому = emphasis on late
• Додому вона приходить пізно = emphasis on home
• Вона пізно приходить додому = also natural, with slightly different rhythm

English relies heavily on fixed word order, but Ukrainian often uses word order to show focus or contrast.

Sometimes yes, if the context already makes it clear who is being talked about.

Ukrainian often drops subject pronouns when they are understood. However, in the third person singular present, the verb form приходить does not show gender by itself. It could mean:

• he comes
• she comes
• it comes

So вона is useful here because it makes the subject clearly she.

Without context, dropping вона would make the sentence less specific.

Because it helps identify the subject clearly.

In some verb forms, the ending tells you enough. But приходить only tells you third person singular. It does not tell you whether the subject is:

• він = he
• вона = she
• воно = it

So including вона makes the sentence explicit and natural, especially out of context.

A useful pronunciation guide is:

• вона́ прихо́дить додо́му пі́зно

Approximate pronunciation:

• vo-NA pry-KHO-dyt do-DO-mu PEE-zno

A few helpful notes:

• х is like the ch in German Bach or Scottish loch
• stress matters in Ukrainian
• и in приходить is not the same as English ee

So the main stresses are on:

• вона́
• прихо́дить
• додо́му
• пі́зно

It can often be understood as either, depending on context.

In this sentence, приходить додому is very natural as:

• comes home
• arrives home

The verb focuses more on reaching the destination than on the process of walking there.

Compare roughly:

• йде додому = she is going home, she is on her way home
• приходить додому = she comes home, she arrives home

So приходить is the better choice when the important idea is the fact of coming home, especially as a habit.