"Tall people"
Translation:Wysocy ludzie
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I'm still not sure that I understand the declension rules here.
Why not "Wysoki ludzie"?
Wysoki mężczyzna / chłopiec / człowiek / ogier ( male horse ) ( masculine ) Wysoka kobieta / dziewczynka / klacz ( female horse ) ( feminine ) Wysokie dziecko / drzewo ( neuter gender ) and Wysocy mężczyźni / chłopcy / ludzie ( masculine + plural ) and also Wysokie kobiety / dziewczynki ( feminine + plural ) but ( ! ) Wysokie ogiery / klacze ( The word koń is neuter )
Plurals have only two genders - personal-masculine - describing human males and non-personal-masculine - describing everything else.
So 'ogier' can be masculine in singular, but is non-personal-masculine in plural hence 'wysokie ogiery'.
@ Haxprocessor - wysoki is singular form, so you cannot use it with plurar noun
I'm about 1,88 and I don't really feel tall :P But I guess I probably am for most people. So let's say 1,80?
When the base form of the adjective has the ending -ki, it changes to -cy in Nominative masculine personal plural, like niski - niscy, polski - polscy, lekki - lekcy, krótki - krótcy, etc. The base form of this adjective is "wysoki", so it becomes "wysocy".
