"There is a box on the table."

Translation: На столе коробка.

[Geniellamas]

What is wrong with На столе лежит коробка? There was another sentence that used лежит in a similar fashion.

[deactivated user]

«На столе́ лежи́т коро́бка» should be accepted too. Please use the 'Report a Problem' button next time you get this sentence.

[AlexFromAus]

Лежит would imply the box is on it's side, wouldn't it?

[aysha651781]

Лежит- this is like the box is lying on the table.

[Julie114840]

Would, "The box is on the table" be wrong?

[dmitriy-kalmykov]

"The box is on the table" - "Коробка на столе", "There is a box on the table"- " На столе коробка". The native will understand ... but the duolingo will not accept, because these are different phrases

[OmerTabach]

What's the difference between коробка and каробке?

[yasmine_y]

Коробка is accusative, каробке is locative.

[dmitriy-kalmykov]

there is two mistakes here...
1)коробка - (кто?who is it? что?what is it?) is nominative, accusative (кого?что? who(what) do I see?) коробку,
2)locative (где?where is it(he\she)?) в кОробке

[TGunk4yg]

A box - коробка. In the box - В кОробке.

[JuanDavid764392]

What is the difference between в and на ?
Is the same say: "на столе коробка" than "в столе коробка" ?
I still can't see any pattern here

[deactivated user]

The basic meaning is:

• «В» is ‘in, inside’.
• «На» is ‘on, on the surface of’.

«В столе» would man the box is inside a drawer of the table. «На столе» means it’s placed on the table.

[Oleg6692]

Коробка скорее стоит, чем лежит.

[Steve448292]

Righto Duo, you are right into using находится, also to a point of being pedantic or obsessive So what is wrong with "на столе находится каробка"?

[EJ007]

What is wrong with На столе стоит коробка? I thought we were supposed to use стоит for when describing an object in relation to another, as it stands on the table