"זה בצל, לא שום."

Translation: This is onion, not garlic.

[alinarj7]

In English we don't say "This is onion."

[oporto11]

• Mmm delicious soup
• Can you guess what's in it?

• Well, this is onion...and this is definitely garlic

• Can I have more garlic in the pitta please?

• This is onion, not garlic

Even if a phrase sounds odd at first, if you ponder it, you may find a grammatical context...the joys of language :)

[Hamutaltul]

It is an onion?

[rich739183]

Seems OK, especially when talking about about the physical object, rather than the flavor.

a908 rich739183

[RoseDark94]

zeh batzal, lo shum

[Patar595]

"Hey, could you pass the garlic seasoning? .... No, this is onion, not garlic! I need the GARLIC seasoning!"

Curse you, rather unlikely but perfectly legitimate mass noun cases! XD

[joelnaqqar]

Batsal or betsal? Duolingo keeps switching

[Hamutaltul]

singular - ba-tsal. plutal - be-zsa-lim (but it is a soft be)

[Durandal734]

It accepts garlic without an article for me.

[k0TN1]

I don't understand the articles problem. Sometimes they don't accept a sentence without articles, and here the sentence misses 2 articles - and it's ok