"He wears large socks."
Translation:On nosi duże skarpetki.
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What about the phrase "ma na sobie..." This was how I learned to say someone is wearing something
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"is wearing", yes.
"wears", not so much. It's a habitual action, not necessarily performed right now. "Ma na sobie" usually is used to describe what a person is wearing at the present time, "nosi" can be used for both.
i am wondering in the context of this question if there is any difference or reason to use 'skarpetki' vs 'skarpety'?
Only "skarpety" was taught in this course, so "skarpetki" can just be an accepted option. I'd normally choose "skarpetki", but if there are 'large', then actually "skarpety" do indeed sound better to me.
The plurals are 'masculine personal plural' and 'not masculine-personal plural'.
Also no, it's not masculine anyway. "skarpeta" is feminine. But even if it was masculine, it doesn't refer to a man, so it's still the second plural.
The grammatical case. "Skarpety" is the Nominative plural, as well as the Accusative - and this is the case used here. "Skarpet" is Genitive plural. See the declension here.
The current team working on the course considers "skarpetki" to be the basic word and "skarpety" to mean mostly larger, warm sock that you'd wear in winter. The team that originally created this course decided to teach "skarpety", though.