"Это очень вкусный салат."

Translation: It is a very tasty salad.

[MarkHopman]

This salad is absolutely delicious. Why was this incorrect? A suggestion was "This is absolutely delicious salad", which to me sounds unnatural.

[FernandoGa503068]

I think your sentence would be more like "этот салат очень вкусный"

[fanderso4]

The English translation is wrong: You don't say "This is an delicious salad", you say "This is a delicious salad"

[JanisaChatte]

Fixed.

[alinarj7]

As an English speaker "It is a very tasty salad" sounds super unnatural to me... I have honestly never heard anyone say that, so I put "The salad is very tasty" and that's wrong. Why?

[JJLetto]

"this salad is really tasty" is a bad translation or just wrong english?

[theflymouse]

Sounds good to me

[efisgpr]

They don't like when we put "really" for очень, unfortunately...wish they would, though, since really and very are virtually identical in usage. Report it, please. I have been.

[Ekoluomu]

"This salad is very delicious" was wrong.

[frazer_124]

'Very delicious' is bad English. Using 'very' with adjectives which already have a superlative sense to them (eg. excellent, delicious, fantastic) is unidiomatic, although not strictly wrong grammatically.

[jt82fi]

I can understand why "very excellent/ fantastic" would sound weird. But "very delicious" is bad English, seriously?? Sounds very far-fetched (oops I did it again!) to me :D

[TARDISToni]

This sentence is very appropriate at the moment, as I have just made винигрет for the first time in a couple of years, and I'm letting it marinate. I'm really looking forward to it. Винигрет - очень вкусный русский салат! :-)

[john.newbe]

And unusually for russian salads it has no Mayo!

[ThomasNguy4]

винигрет what does it mean?

[friis002]

Vinaigrette(винЕгрет) is a specific type of salad with a specific recipe.
Ingredients: boiled beets, carrots and potatoes, pickles and sauerkraut, onions or green, all in about equal volumes, only onions a little more than other vegetables, and a little less carrots. Classic Russian vinaigrette necessarily includes a chopped steep egg and a little herring (in this case, sauerkraut is not used, and the number of potatoes and onions increases). Everything is seasoned with a mixture of three percent vinegar, vegetable oil, salt and black pepper

[RaliRxlZ]

when do you use <ы> and when do you use <и> in masculine nominative adjectives?

[snikta]

isn't "this is" a better translation here than "it is" ?

[Katherine223628]

They are accepting the word "delicious" but they keep pointing out that another translation is "tasty" -- why this insistence on "tasty" -- I'm a native speaker of American English and I never say that. I say delicious or good or yummy.

[Muskanty]

Tasty is just another synonym. I'd say it's register is between that of yummy and delicious.

[RhiannonMcBride]

It has been so drilled into my head to not use the word very that using it for очень just feels weird, even though it's correct.

[pierrotpierrot]

I said "This is a very yummy salad" and I was marked wrong even though Duolingo would accept yummy for вкусный in other questions. Yummy is synonymous with tasty/delicious.