"A tomato is tasty."

Translation: Pomidor jest smaczny.

[Willifordg]

Why wouldn't pomidor to smaczne be correct?

[Jellei]

Two reasons:

1) "Pomidor" is masculine, so it cannot use a neuter form.

2) The "X to Y" construction works only when both X and Y are noun phrases. "A tomato is a tasty fruit/vegetable" could be translated both as "Pomidor jest smacznym owocem/warzywem" and "Pomidor to smaczny owoc/smaczne warzywo".

[DavidWhybr1]

I thought tomato was feminine?

[alik1989]

I think all nouns ending in -r are masculine. If there are any exceptions, then I'm not aware of them.

[VijaiRaj]

why pomidor to smaczny is not correct,why jest?instead of to.confusing

[immery]

because you don't use "to" with "only" adjective.

https://www.duolingo.com/comment/16373167

[Ed5ucq]

There is another excercise where we are asked to translate "pomidor jest smaczny" (approximatly). What is the difference?

[Jellei]

The difference between what and what?

[labradore1]

A little leniency for typos, as in other DuoLingo courses, would be nice for a language like Polish, which has a steep orthography learning curve.