"Tutaj nie ma drogich hoteli."

Translation: There are no expensive hotels here.

[JPHQRO]

"There aren't expensive hotels here" is marked wrong. This is like that exercise about no work for me that drives me crazy because nobody will give an actual explanation why it insists on "are no jobs" and rejects "there aren't jobs".

[WquDT]

It sounds wrong to me . We would say " There aren't any expensive hotels here" or "There are no expensive hotels here". I'm sorry I can't tell you why.

[laurahya]

Why is it "hoteli"? Isn't "drogich" genitive plural?

[immery]

"drogich hoteli" is genitive plural. You need genitive after "nie ma"

[laurahya]

Thanks. Yes, I knew it needed genitive but I wasn't familiar with the form "hoteli" as I'd only learned the "ów" ending for masculine genitive plural. So it would be "i" after L, W, Ń, Ź, etc.?

[immery]

I do not know the rules but I guess yes, as I know examples for l w and ń.

Substantives ending in nom. sg. with phonetically soft consonants: ć, dź, ń, ś, ź and with p, b, m, w alternating in oblique cases with p′, b′, m′, w′ as well as with l and j.
http://grzegorj.w.interiowo.pl/gram/en/odmiana1.html

[helenazak]

"nouns which take the -i ending for genitive plural are increasingly adopting an alternative form in -ów,hotelów", (Polish - An essential grammar - Dana Bielec, Chapter 6 p114)

[Jellei]

@gbaldacci1309: Yes, "hotelów" is also considered correct and it works, but it's less common.

[gbaldacci1309]

would hotelow (with dot over O) have been accepted? It is what I wanted to write but did not hear that so I ended with i.

[Katrionapersson]

Surely dear and expensive mean the same thing!

[JPHQRO]

In American English, dear would be used to mean beloved but not expensive. I think in British English, they are synonymous.

[Jellei]

As they do in British English - sure, added.

[SandyTidwe]

Answered "There's no expensive hotels here" and it was marked wrong. Not great grammar, but it's the same sentence.

[Popo-lsku]

There´s (there IS) is just singular!
But we need the plural here. (There ARE no...)

[Popo-lsku]

"There are no expensive hotels around here." was marked wrong!? Maybe "around" is too much and not the exact answer. Or could that also be correct?

[WquDT]

It sounds fine but maybe was not the exact answer duolingo was looking for.

[shamrock15]

Why is this plural with the singular verb? Should it not be mają?

[JPHQRO]

It's just how this construction works. You can think of it as being like "This place doesn't have any..."

[Popo-lsku]

mają doesn´t work. "Nie mają" means "they do not have" "Nie ma tutaj" = "There is no... here"

[BigBoyMatt123]

is "nie ma" always "there is no" other than in the context of he/she has?

[Jellei]

Yes, "nie ma" is either literally "he/she/it does not have" or very often it also means "there is no".