"あのホテルは大きいです。"

Translation: That hotel is big.

[arienrhod1]

I wrote "That hotel over there is big" and it was an error. In one of the previous sentences it corrected me when I didn't use "that over there" for あの

[hiba226886]

Duolingo is having a pretty bigg error in general with sono ano and kono etc. 'That over there' is correct

[MatthewHar628310]

Should be "that hotel over there is big". Kono, Sono, Ano convey position relative to those conversing.

[DavidKames]

that hotel is big is also fine

[danieltheodoro84]

kono, sono, ano - este, esse, aquele

[deactivated user]

Es italiano? En español es: Kono, sono, ano --> Este, ese, aquel

[danieltheodoro84]

No, Portuguese.

[insincere]

So I could leave out desu in this sentence and still be correct?

[Flviodomin3]

Yeah

[V2Blast]

That would be the informal form of the sentence, yes. With an い-adjective at the end, you just leave off です; with a な-adjective in that position, you'd have to use だ instead of です.

[Lirren]

Is the symbol they are using for the "ho" sound kanji?? I didn't realize kanji and katakana were EVER combined to spell out a foreign word.

[abbradley]

I was also confused by that given how they introduced it, but if you check a katakana chart ホ is the regular kana for "ho".

[LilithSerenada]

Nope! ほ is hiragana and ホ is katakana. Are you maybe confusing it with the Kanji 木 (もく)、大 (だい)、or possibly 本 (ほん)？

[Alan946894]

2020.4 25 There are some katakana that look remarkably similar to kanji.

ロ「ろ」vs 口「くち」
オ「お」vs 才「さい」
エ「え」vs 工「こう」in 工事「こう。じ」

just to list three off the top of my head. Knowing the word and sentence context makes it clear what it is, such as the kanji compound 工事。

There's no way the Japanese would think that is え。じ

[Amber943501]

Is it possible to also say so no in this in place of a no?

[Emer_Learns]

Sono would imply "that hotel (near you, who I am speaking to)", whereas ano means "that hotel (over there, not near either me or you)". If you were translating from English to Japanese, and had no context for where the hotel was, the phrase "that hotel" could be translated using either sono or ano, but if you know where the hotel is relative to the listener, only one will be correct.

[V2Blast]

Note that その and あの are each one word; there shouldn't be a space before "no".

[olesulliva]

That is a big hotel. does it mean the same thing?

[V2Blast]

Not quite, because the sentence structure is different.

[JaceKisile]

why is that is a big hotel unacceptable

[Leo358607]

well it is a different sentence. "That is a big hotel" would be something like: kono wa okii hoteru desu

[DisguiseAn1]

I wrote "That is a big hotel" and they counted it wrong.

[Swisidniak]

That would be あれは大きいホテルです or あれは大きなホテルです

あのホテルは大きいです
"That hotel is big"
あのホテル "That hotel" is the subject being equated with the adjective 大きい "is big". です is optional in this case to make it more polite because 大きい is an い-adjective which can inflect and end a sentence on its own similar to a verb.

あれはおおき（い・な）ホテルです
あれ "That" is the subject being equated with "a big hotel"; this can use either the い or な form to directly modify ホテル "hotel". Since this sentence ends in a noun phrase though a copula of some sort（だ・です）is required to be grammatically correct.

In both the English and the Japanese the subject and predicate are different between the two sentences.
In the Japanese the grammar itself also changes a bit, (the pre-noun adjectival あの 'that (noun)' vs the pronoun あれ 'that', the different forms of 大きい・大きな "big" which are optional in one sentence but only one can be used in the other, and the requirement of a copula which is optional in one and required in the other.