"Süpermarkette peynir ve yağ var."

Translation: There are cheese and oil at the supermarket.

[MoDan11]

There is an English error here. Cheese AND oil together are a plural subject, not a singular one. The correct English would be, "There ARE cheese and oil at the supermarket."

[angelofverdun]

This is rather interesting because, as a native speaker of English, I would never say "There are cheese and oil at the supermarket."

[ErrolDrumm]

I dont think so, i think English is poorly defined here. I think you can interpret the verb to distribute, as in it is saying "there is cheese, and there is oil, at the supermarket"

[PhilRushton]

I disagree, as a native speaker and teacher of English in Italy, where I often find myself correcting this mistake. Italian speakers see this as a plural, because there are two things at the supermarket. British English speakers treat each of the things as singular, because they are different in nature.

[CharlotteN7]

Why not The supermarket has cheese and oil

[AlexinNotTurkey]

That would be a possessive sentence (which this is not...it is just describing location).

Your sentence would be "Süpermarketin peyniri ve yağı var." When you make a possessive phrase like this one with a general direct object, you will see the genitive case :)

[Weirdo-SaveEgypt]

This makes me so frustrateddd. Wouldn't 'There is cheese and oil at the supermarket' be correct? I've been stuck in this course for way too long

[roboladybird]

It should be "There is cheese and oil at the supermarket"

[Iva335931]

How would you write ,,The supermarket has cheese and oil" ?

[Daniya_zzz]

Could be IN the supermarket instead of AT

[Ash784955]

Would a better translation be:
"At the supermarket there is/are cheese and oil"
?

[opsiyonel-kisi]

then Is this sentence true; There IS cheese and oilS at the supermarket?

[Nasamalward]

It should be there "are" not "is"

[Farzan_Fathi]

Yes, I was quite surprised when I see that. But maybe it's correct.

[tu.8zPhLD72zzoZN]

Wouldn't the plural of "yağ" be "yağlar" ?

[Fleurcolaco]

I think tye main confusion here is active or passive voice, does Turkish language have that?

[Jennie721026]

I thought there would need to be a “de” at the end of supermarkette?

[Durple_Purple]

Since "süpermarket" ends with a voiceless consonant, it would be "-te."

[ArwaAlansa]

Please can any one explain where is "are" here