"Konie są duże."

Translation: Horses are big.

[LucasMartn16]

Polish "są" sounds like spanish "son". son=are (3rd pers plur)

[Wangbarros]

Even better: from what I understood, ą indicates a nasal vowel. 3rd person plural for portuguese is "são". Ã also indicates a nasal vowel.

[alik1989]

And it sounds almost identical the the French third personal plural sont.

[Jeremy772153]

Why do we use "duże" and not "duży"? Koń is masculine.

[alik1989]

In the plural there is no distinction between masculine, feminine and neuter, but between virile and nonvirile.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/du%C5%BCy#Declension

Koń is nonvirile (not a male human).

[Jeremy772153]

Thank you, that helps a lot. I didnt know about wiktionary.

[cloroxblea383174]

Why not koń?

[Jellei]

Because that's singular (Koń jest duży), and the sentence is about plural.

[Gabriel_Bach]

Nouns in plural take the same adjectival ending of neuter nouns in the nominative case?

[Gerardd88]

There are different genders in plural declension. Maybe this will help:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Polish/Adjectives

[Gabriel_Bach]

I see, thanks for confirming it.

[RebeccaJim5]

I wrote the horses are big and it was incorrect 'cause is without "the" c'moooon

[Jellei]

Both the answer with and without "the" should have worked.

[RobertLech3]

That sucks. I didn't know duo didn't like that.

[juliaTrake]

What is that "są"?

[RonaldLett]

Są is the form of być (to be) that is associated with a plural third person subject (horses). It would normally be translated as "are".

[EagleBird3]

When making a word a plural (eg jałko to jałki) do you just replace the o (as in ocelot) with a i (as in india) at the end? Thanks.

[alik1989]

Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. I think you meant jabłko, the plural form of which is jabłka. In this example koń becomes konie. Besides that, typical plural endings can also be -i -y or -owie.

Here is a post on that topic.

[RubyRedux]

I want to confirm if i understand this right, is it like this?:

"Konie są duże" = "the horses are big", like talking about horses you saw on a farm, or on a show, or horses your friend keeps, etc

"Konie to duże" = "horses are big" Meaning, like, in general, horses are big animals. It's defining that horses, in general, are big?

[alik1989]

If you are talking about specific horses, you'll want to use the demonstrative pronoun: 'Te konie są duże'. Drop the pronoun when you're talking about horses in general.

Your second suggestion is ungrammatical, as a 'X to Y' construction requires nouns on both sides.

[Jellei]

Technically "Te konie są duże" means "These horses are big", but then "The horses are big" seems to mean exactly the same.

[TomNies]

"Konie to duże" is a broken phrase - needs another noun. Most likely ""Konie to duże zwierzęta" (Horses are [typically] big animals). Or "Konie to duże dranie" (Horses are [typically] big scoundrels). etc