"Lubię warzywa oprócz pomidora."
Translation:I like vegetables except for tomato.
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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Never mind the response you got, I agree with you. And it makes sense; I like vegetables except for the tomato, since its a fruit. At least it's a logical interpretation.
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Why isn't "I like vegetables except for tomatoes" accepted as a translation? It gave me the same answer but with a singular tomato, which actually sounds a little odd to my native English ear.
"I like vegetables except for the tomato." doesn't make much sense, tomato should be without article, unles you mean one specific tomato and in that case the sentence shoul be rather "I like these vegetables except for the tomato" to sound natural...
I've found it quite typical for Polish people to put "the" wherever they can even if it doesn't belong there (for example city names, even names of people sometimes) ;)
"the tomato" is fine here. It's the same "the" as in "The shark is an apex predator." In English this does not mean a particular shark, it means sharks as a species. In Spanish we also have this, "El tiburón es un superpredador." It does not mean a specific shark, it means the species "shark", the collective of all sharks. Here we consider the tomato as a species of plant. "The tomato is a red fruit", "El tomate es una fruta roja."
We asked a native English speaker working on our course and she says "It feels unbalanced as it is, though I'm not sure if it's actually wrong.", but generally we won't argue - the sentence is far from being natural and we'd like to replace it. We currently can't, but we hope to be able to do it soon.
The Polish sentence has the same problem. I'm also personally not sure if it's wrong per se, but it could surely be better.
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This sentence is factually incorrect. It assumes tomatoes are vegetables. Could it possibly be changed to an actual vegetable?
At this point in the course, what vegetables do we have in our vocabulary? So far, we know Polish words for tomato, apple, meat, water, milk, wine, bread, cookie, fruit, vegetable, food, meal, names of meals... but no "real" vegetables -- but that has no bearing on what we're learning here, which is the word "except". This sentence is fine for that. It makes more sense than "The cat slices tomatoes quickly", lol.
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Why is 'I like vegetables but tomatoes' incorrect? Here 'but' is in the meaning of 'except for'.
The problem with learning Polish is the endings of words change so frequently that lost in them we forget the spelling of the original word! I've seen pomidora and pomidoro so much that its natural to think one of these variations is the original word. My dictionary reminds me a tomato is a pomidor but it's so rare to come across a pomidor that one forgets the word. In Polish the grammar and vocabulary are not always a good mix. If you concentrate too much on these word endings you may lose the original word.(PS Incidentally, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable because the fruit part of the plant does not grow in the ground . )
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"I like vegetables other than tomatoes" was not accepted. Nor "I like vegetables other than tomato".
To be honest, I'm not fond of either.