"Pomidor jest smaczny."

Translation: A tomato is tasty.

[GeoffThePenguin]

Surely saying "Tomatoes are tasty" would be more grammatically correct.

[GaryAertho]

What is the difference between pomidor and pomidora?

[immery]

grammar. Polish nouns take different forms depending on their function in sentence and which verb or pronoun they follow.

Pomidora is genitive= accusative (those are most common cases for direct objects)

Pomidor is nominative. (it is a subject ot the above sentence)

[Emwue]

Just a note: some native speakers(me, for example;) ) use "pomidor" for accusative instead.(and I think that is actually the norm prescribed by RJP, not that it matters that much)

[immery]

I do not know about RJP but sjp.pwn says we use "pomidor" in accusative in more formal situations. http://sjp.pwn.pl/szukaj/pomidora.html

wsjp.pl has B. "pomidora, rzadziej pomidor"

[bluebird998042]

the pronunciation of the teacher is misleading, she says smaczne when it should be smaczny

[Jellei]

Hmmm... yeah, I believe it does sound so. Disabled audio exercises.

[zittler]

I know the audio is disabled on this particular example, I have tried to hear the difference between ending with e, ę, and y. I have a hard time with them. The only ones I can differentiate are a and ą at the end or e and ę on the middle of the word. Any tips or examples?

[Ch.Kallab]

What about smaczny or smaczna? Is it accusative or what?

[alik1989]

Smaczny is for masculine nouns, smaczna for feminine nouns. Sentences like these require the nominative case.

Here's a declension table for all genders and cases:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smaczny#Declension

[DavidAndra13]

Can't we say "Tomato is tasty."? If we are globally speaking about how good tomato is?

[Jellei]

OK, I think this undergoes this very narrow group of article-less sentences which we accept, so added now.

[MeganKunze1]

Only if you're using 'tomato' as an adjective, like if you were saying which kind of pasta sauce you like.

If you're talking about one specific tomato, you'd say 'this/that tomato'. In general, you'd just say 'tomatoes are tasty'.