"אתה אוכל סלט עגבניות."

Translation: You eat a tomato salad.

[aadambialas]

So why do you say מרק עגבניה but סלט עגבניות? Is it just how you say it in hebrew or is there some rule behind it?

[NaftaliFri1]

I think עגבניות is more common for both ("soup of tomatoes")

Using the single form implies generality ("soup made of the tomato vegetable") and so can be used, but it seems less common. I don't know if I ever heard it with "salad"

[TeribleT]

It sounds like salahtgvinot. Usually I can hear the separate words, is this just me? Is the first time I couldn't hear the separation.
And I speak insanely fast. Like my dad still can't understand me & I've been speaking for decades.

[Janis559500]

I clearly hear him say saLAT agvaniOT. I don't see a date on these posts, so you may have done this one very early in your work with Duolingo Hebrew. Either that or they revised the audio.

[Sun.of.GOD]

Thats why i got it wrong...smh

[jarrettph]

Tomato salad! Never heard of that before. :)

[OzzieOnkno]

tomatoes with mozzarella cheese and basil and olive oil.

[JayStanton]

You're in for a treat!

[Shoshanah531034]

I put salad tomato :-(

[CaioFranca2]

Is this sentence okay?:
הילדה ואני אוכלים סלת עגבניות תעים

[YardenNB]

Great! Just two typos: סלט and טעים.

[ChromateX]

Is עגבניות in the genitive case?

[airelibre]

Hebrew doesn’t have cases but I can sort of see where you are coming from.

Hebrew has smikhut compounds consisting of a nismakh and a somekh. Somekh is the second word, so עגבניות here is the somekh. The second word never changes form in smikhut, so you can’t really call it a case. However, it does have the sense “of tomatoes”, so it is vaguely similar to the genitive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct_state