"The soup is good."
Translation:Zupa jest dobra.
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No, it's clearly feminine in Polish. Almost all nouns ending with -a are feminine.
Why is "Zupa to dobra" incorrect? Can "to" be used only with 2 nouns? Is "Zupa to jedzenie" gramatically correct?
And do I use "to" as-is or change it to match the noun? For example, what's correct: "Zupa to jedzenie" or "Zupa ta jedzenie"?
"to" doesn't change in such a construction. And yes, it can be used only when both parts are noun phrases.
THANKS! I had the same question/problem. It wasn't clear that "to" can be used only with a noun relating to a noun.
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16373167/A-guide-on-X-is-Y-and-This-is-Y-constructions: Part 3 (but the whole thing is worth reading)
There's no such a form as "dobrę" at all, in any case.
This is a simple sentence using only Nominative, "soup" is feminine, so it's "dobra".
I put zupa jest smaczna and it accepted it. I know tasty basically means that you like it, but I like how it still accepted it.
Yes, we accept interpreting "The" as "This" and therefore translating it as "Ta", your answer should have worked.
How do you know what the right ending for good and bad is with food e.g dobra, dobre, dobry, zła, złe, zły?
Well, firstly, establish the gender of the noun which you are using (in this case, almost all nouns ending with "-a" are feminine, so "zupa" is feminine), and then look up the correct ending of the adjective for that noun using a dictionary such as Wiktionary.
Examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dobry#Polish
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/z%C5%82y#Polish
You'll need to hit 'show' on the declensions to see the endings....
No. "To" only works when there is no noun. When there is a singular noun, the "ten/ta/to" has to match the noun in gender, so it would have to be "Ta zupa" here (which I believe is accepted). (There are also further plural options, "ci" and "te", but that's another story.)
"To zupa jest dobra" could possibly make sense, if someone asked you "Only one of those things is good, which one is that?" and you answered "Soup is the good one" or something like that. Not very likely.