"Lato to dobry okres."

Translation: Summer is a good period.

[kevin.vaughn]

You don't say periods, you say seasons.

[sz-cz]

Yes, you are right, however this sentence means probably something different ("That summer was a good period of my life"). By the way, "Seasons" translates to "pory roku".

[sirwootalot]

This is one of several cases where you knowing the literal translation is more important than "making it sound right". The further you get from a language's family tree, the more often you can't always count on there being a literal translation of a word. English has such an astounding wealth of Romance loanwords that it's easy to forget how little intelligibility there actually is between branches of a major language family. (I'm noticing Polish has a decent amount of Romance loanwords as well, just for completely different things!)

[ChrisFlynn12]

Anyone have a link to an explanation of when 'to' can be used instead of 'jest'? Thought I had it figured but obviously not

[Jellei]

You can check here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/16373167

[annamalinowskio]

On this answer, could you have put 'Summer is not a good time' ? Or is that incorrect?
Thanks.

[Jellei]

"time" is accepted, but here, Summer IS a good time :)

[annamalinowskio]

OOOHH. So sorry! Read the sentence wrong. :(

[NicolasGranbar]

That's why you count years of life by summers in Polish? Lol

[ariestar]

"Summer is a good time period" was not accepted.

[alik1989]

It is a pleonasm, but a quite common one, therefore added.

[CatherineJ480062]

I wrote "Summer is a.good time of year" and it was marked wrong?!.
I can tell you that it's much more acceptable in English than "Summer is a good period. "