"A tomato is not a strawberry!"
Translation:עגבנייה זה לא תות!
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Was wondering why using זה is correct in this sentence. You've answered my query, thank you.
Although this structure is new to me, I believe what is meant is a copula. A copula "couples" two things together. In English, "to be" serves as the copula. "A strawberry is a fruit." "A tomato is a fruit." "A tomato is not a strawberry."
This is equating a noun with a noun. Most verbs indicate some kind of action, but the copula further defines the first noun.
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Two reasons: 1) you are using the word for olive rather than tomato, and 2) your sentence is "this is an olive; this is not a strawberry" (or possibly "it's an olive; it's not a strawberry"), so the grammatical structure is different: your subject is this/it rather than olive/tomato.
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In this type of sentence, the זה has a similar role to the be verb "is", although it is not a verb. You can say: עגבניה זה לא תות or עגבניה היא לא תות.
זה means this Ie this is. זה לא means this is not or it is not. If you would say עגבניה לא תות, you would be saying "a tomato, not a strawberry". Because you would like to say "a tomato IS NOT A strawberry" you would have to insert a pronoun (and the word "not"). Since Hebrew labels items as male or female, you can use the word "she"/היא (because tomato is female) or "it"(f)/זאת. While the female version is more grammatically correct, in spoken Hebrew the word "it"(m)/זה is used.
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If עגבנייה is feminine then does that mean i could say עגבניה זאת לא תות instead of עגבניה זה לא תות
I wrote this עגבנייה זה לא תות! and was told I was wrong. The correct answer was said to be: עגבניה אינה תות, which included, אינה which has not even been covered, to the best of my knowledge. when I used what it said was the correct solution, it told me: "Another correct solution: "עגבנייה זה לא תות!
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There are a lot of problems with this. Whatever current Israeli mangling of the language I would hope that Duolingo would stick to proper grammatical Hebrew. עגבנייה is feminine. My suggestions are עגבנייה זאת לא תות Or עגבנייה איננה תות
So, recently, in the grammar, words like, "האם" "זה" "את" "הוא" etc., are added to identify the noun or give some kind of emphasis (האם) with the words this or that. How do I know when to insert them into the sentence? I thought I could just write, "עגבנייה לא תות" but is was wrong and I needed the "זה, this" to translate it properly. How do I distinguish when to do this, and how to do it properly?
I think I have been seeing both עגבנייה and עגבניה to mean "tomato." Is one of these correct and the other is incorrect, or do they have different uses?
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The word is correctly spelled with one yod. When writing without vowels they will sometimes put in the extra yod to let you know that the word has a nee sound (the first yod) followed by a ya sound (the second yod). It's called מלא, full, meaning they write it out in full for some confusing situations.
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Please see airelibre's (moderator and contributor to the course) comment at the top of this long discussion. It notes that while it is technically more correct to use זאת or היא because עגבנייה is feminine, "Hebrew speakers often use זה regardless of the gender." So both are not strictly correct, but they are apparently considered acceptable.
There are things like this in English, too, such as the singular "data" and "that's me".
The English did not say "this" anywhere. Why does the answer insist on "זה"?
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Please read the whole page--this is discussed and answered. It's used in this particular type of grammatical construction.
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You are asking about עגבניה vs. עגבנייה, right?
Both are correct. Technically, you should use one yud when you write with nikud and two when you write without nikud, but many people write one yud even if they write without nikud.