"That small fish is evil."

Translation: Tamta mała ryba jest zła.

[dfwgator]

Spooky Fish.

[SaraRoszko]

This was a South Park episode (when Stan's fish was from an evil parallel universe)

[TwinTip]

Hurry, kill that fish! O.o

[KEREM1990]

czemu jest tamta _ ? czy mozna napisac ta _ >

[TheCooyon]

Usually, ta = this and tamta = that

[Euhan1]

How can you tell?

[AlexPhysique]

Evil? Why not angry?

[BasiaNowak3]

I agree, with no context I would definitely guess "angry" over "evil".

[Jellei]

"zły" has so many meanings that we just try to show a few. "angry" works.

[aonghasvansant]

Shouldn't "tamta rybka jest zła" work here? Or not?

[Jellei]

I guess we can accept the diminutive "rybka" as a translation of "small fish". Added the possibility to omit "mała" if you use "rybka".

[BenJackson425231]

Unless I'm missing something, the suggested answer has an error...

You used the wrong word.
Ta mała ryba jest zła.

Shouldn't it be Tamta mała ryba?

I did actually make a real error in my answer, so it's likely the correct answer is accepted, but I just wanted to check that I hadn't missed some important subtlety about Ta/tamta in this context . Until now, the course has translated them literally as this/that (I realise it is more subtle that that in practice).

[Jellei]

The main translations should be very 'direct': "this" = "ta" and "that" = "tamta".

However, in fact it is indeed more subtle. [this/that/that] translates to [ta/ta/tamta]. So "Ta mała ryba" is a correct answer as well. Why did the algorithm 'correct' your usage of "tamta", that I don't know.

[BenJackson425231]

Thanks for the info!

[wigbam]

Evil seabass with freaking laser beams.

[9ipI3]

Just because it does not drinks coffee

[TheSalamiander]

I am absolutely terrified of the evil fish.

[DnPunkt]

Is "Tamta mała ryba to zła. " not possible?

[Jellei]

No. "That small fish is evil" could be treated as an "X is Y" sentence, but if Y (evil) is just an adjective, it has to use the "jest" construction, and the adjective is in Nominative.

If you had "That small fish is an evil animal", with both X (That small fish) and Y (an evil animal) being noun phrases, then you'd have two options:

"Tamta mała ryba to złe zwierzę" ('to' + Y in Nominative) or "Tamta mała ryba jest złym zwierzęciem" (a form of "być" + Y in Instrumental).

[Penelope289515]

Correct answer says it should be mała rybka jest zła

[Jellei]

Do you mean that it was the suggestion given to you? "tamta" or "ta" really must have been there to translate "that", but we accept "rybka", it makes sense to accept the diminutive form after "mała".