"There is a delicious pizza on the table."
Translation:На столе вкусная пицца.
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Duolingo is so inconsistent whether they want есть that it starts getting annoying
Well i think the emphasis here is that the pizza is tasty, not the fact that there is a pizza on the table. In other words if we wanted to emphasize that there is a pizza on the table we would have to use "есть" -> "на столе есть пицца".
Hi, you got it switched around, you understand it well but it applies in an opposite way. Here the main part is the location of the pizza. Were we describing the pizza we would use есть.
Just to make sure I understand the usage - is "На столе есть вкусная пицца." wrong because we're using the на preposition?
Там means literal 'there'. In English, 'there is' is an expression which does not really mean 'there' but rather indicates new information (especially in this course). In Russian we do this with word order. Пицца на столе : the pizza is on a table. На столе пицца : on the table is a pizza, or, there is a pizza on the table
I don't have a Russian keyboard set-up so I wrote in latin: "na stole vkusnaya picca" was deemed as incorrect with "picca" being underlined as the incorrect word
"Там на столе вкусная пицца" I think it is correct answer but not accepted
There are no strict syntax rules in Russian, so why duolingo gives a fault ifvthe order of the parts of the sentence is different but still correct?!