"It is not a port, it is a farm."
Translation:To nie jest port, to jest farma.
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Yes, it is. Unless you decide to go with 'tylko', which is something similar to 'but', but it's more like... you're correcting someone's claim.
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Literally that would be: "It is not a port but a farm", but it is 1)way more likely to be spoken by a native and 2)close enough in meaning; so I think you should report it next time as "my answer should be accepted".
You could also say "To nie jest port, tylko farma". Literally, "it is not a port, rather a farm."
I don't understand why it is not correct to write "to nie jest portem to jest farmą"
Let's focus just on the second part: "It is a farm". You cannot use Instrumental in such a sentence. It would be as treating "it" as some kind of a noun, but it's a dummy pronoun. It's a "This is Y" sentence and such sentences use Nominative. Same applies to the first clause, it's just negated.
More info here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/16373167
