"A tomato is tasty."
Translation:Pomidor jest smaczny.
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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.
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".
I think all nouns ending in -r are masculine. If there are any exceptions, then I'm not aware of them.
The vast majority, but not all of them. If it's a soft consonant like ń, then it's a 50% percent chance, I'd say.
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hm i noticed a small thing: at the beginning of the lesson i got 'jem pomidora' and here it is 'pomidor jest smaczny'
i know the discussion on whether it is pomidor or pomidora depending on whether its considered something that grows there or not. (i hope i put it right)
nevertheless i would suggest that duo itself at least stays consistent in pomidor or pomidora
cheers
The difference between pomidor and pomidora in those sentences you mentioned is the same as between the English pronouns he and him. The former is a grammatical subject, the latter an object.
And frankly, I don't understand what you mean by 'consistent' in this context.
We would be inconsistent if we had one sentence "Ja jem pomidora" (I am eating a tomato) and another "On je pomidor" (He is eating a tomato). Both can be considered correct, they are indeed inconsistent.
But as Alik mentioned, here those are simply different grammatical cases.
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ok got it. I didn't know that form of putting an -a as suffix in that case. as you usually do, you understand my post just right and correct it with a polite tone :) I always enjoy reading your comments, thanks for this one, too.
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i see, so the "a" comes from the case, not from the "different opinions" on whether it is pomidor or pomidora in general. My bad then, and thank you
because you don't use "to" with "only" adjective.
There is another excercise where we are asked to translate "pomidor jest smaczny" (approximatly). What is the difference?