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- "A lion is a cat."
"A lion is a cat."
Translation:Lew jest kotem.
June 14, 2016
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"Kot" is Nominative, "kotem" is Instrumental. There are two ways to translate a sentence like "X is Y" when both X and Y are noun phrases (you will soon find explanations under some other sentences). One is "X + a form of 'być' + Y" in Instrumental (so: Lew jest kotem), and the other is simple "X to Y" with Y in Nominative, like here.
We can. What exactly did you write? It's either "Lew jest kotem" or "Lew to kot", rarely "Lew to jest kot".
This post explains everything: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16373167