"Tamten pomidor jest smaczny."

Translation: That tomato is tasty.

[warrenean1]

What is the difference between tamto, tamten , and tamta??

[immery]

grammatical gender.

tamto is for neuter nouns
tamten is for masculine nouns
tamta is for feminine nouns

[Anton_Slavik]

Good thing in Russia we have the same gender signaling endings

[warrenean1]

Ok, dzieki because that was very confusing to me.

[va-diim]

dzięki

[CatherineD523718]

that is really similar to children!

[va-diim]

Not really. Dzięki sounds like "jengki," but dzieci sounds like "jetchi"

[AnneMacek]

Thanks for the concise answer. Here's a lingot.

[BigDickDaddy123]

why is the tomato masculine?

[immery]

because it ends with "or"

[Oddly_Correct]

You say tamta, I say tamto. Let's call the whole thing off!

[tarredfeather]

What is the difference between "ten" and "tamten"?

[Jellei]

First is "this", the other is "that".

The thing is, that in Polish "tamten" is used more rarely than English "that". It is more like "that one over there".

[JPBRZECHWA]

Why smaczny and not smaczne?

[va-diim]

pomidor is a masculine noun. Smaczne is a neuter or plural adjective

[honkhonk6]

u say it's tasty, i say it's delicious

[LaurelLove1]

What's the difference between pomidor and pomidora?

[va-diim]

••••••••••••••••singular••••••plural••••••

nominative: pomidor pomidory

genitive: pomidora pomidorów

dative: pomidorowi pomidorom

accusative: pomidor (in colloquial Polish also pomidora) pomidory

instrumental: pomidorem pomidorami

locative: pomidorze pomidorach

vocative: pomidorze pomidory

[AidanGiord]

why isnt in tamto?

[immery]

Because pomidor is masculine. Polish nouns have grammatical gender that usually has nothing to do with gender/sex like English speaking people perceive it.

[va-diim]

Tamto is gender-neuter "that." Pomidor is gender-masculine, so tamten, gender-masculine "that," has to match the gender of pomidor.

[Anton_Slavik]

In Russian смачный - smachniy is a slang word for tasty. Now I know where it came from.

[va-diim]

The Ukrainian смачний means the same as Polish smaczny, so more likely, it came into Russian from the Ukrainian.

[Chris731470]

German: schmackhaft. In English, we say 'it smacks', but use 'tastes' far more often. Must be cognates.

[SDOcommando24]

I wrote "That tomato is delicious" and it was marked incorrect. Any difference between "tasty" and "delicious" I'm unaware of? lol

[Jellei]

Yes, we believe that "delicious" is stronger than just "tasty" and translates to "pyszny".

[Sarielowich]

In quick listening exercise first word is pronounced wrong. It is for sure not tamten. Some "tamtena". In slow motion the word is correct.

[Jellei]

Well, I don't hear it...

[Serafina885176]

'Delicious' in English would be what one normally says

[Jellei]

"delicious" translates to "pyszny".

[Serafina885176]

This is an example of the problem I have with Duolingo which is the difference between literal translation and what would you'd say in everyday language. ' This tomato is tasty' is perfectly good English but not very colloquial. 'Smaczny' seems to be the everyday word for what in colloquial English would be rendered as ' tastes good' . 'This tomato is tasty' is not something that I would ever say or expect a native English speaker to say..

[alik1989]

We often also accept non-literal translations. Here, for example, we included 'is good' and 'tastes good'.

'Delicious' is indeed a very strong word. The more options we accept here, the less nuances will we be able to teach.

[Serafina885176]

Ok, fair enough. Agree 'delicious' is stronger. (It's not always easy to know, though, when you'll accept a more colloquial rendering and when it has to be literal) !!

[KanwalKhal2]

Is tamtem here accusative?

[alik1989]

Tamten pomidor is the subject of the sentence, so it must be nominative.