"Big women, big men and big children"
Translation:Duże kobiety, duzi mężczyźni i duże dzieci
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The word "dziecko" is neuter, so even if the particular children you're talking about are boys, the plural version is still 'not masculine-plural'.
And even if it was masculine plural, it would be "duzi". The masculine personal version of the adjective is usually quite different from the other ones.
cases. kobieta is singular nominative. Mostly subject of the sentence and after "to" - Kasia to kobieta (kasia is a woman) Kobiety is plural nominative - the same
Kobietami is plural instrumental, at this point of course it follows "być" Jesteśmy konietami- we are women, one są kobietami - they are women,
You may want to read about instrumental case and "to" in the tips and notes defining https://www.duolingo.com/skill/pl/Defining
You have two plurals in Polish. One is "masculine personal" and the other is "not masculine-personal". The names say it all: first one is used for 'groups of people including at least one man', the other for anything else. The masculine personal form is "duzi", and the not masculine-personal is "duże".
Is there "e" in the end of the adjectives because the nouns are animated?
"duzi" is the 'masculine personal' plural. "duże" is 'not masculine-personal' plural.
So "women" are definitely not masculine. No problem here. "men" are definitely masculine. Also clear. "dzieci" are more problematic. But the singular word "dziecko" is neuter, so this decides on "dzieci" being 'not masculine-personal'. Even if the children you're talking about are only boys, if you decided to say 'children' and not 'boys', the right form is "duże".
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In have typed this answer correctly and even with the correct accents and it says I'm wrong and does me the answer, which is exactly what i typed...
/i/ is a so called palatalising (softening) vowel, which softens up to two preceding 'hard' consonants. Hence, when the /i/ is added, the following changes occur:
ż -> ź
sz -> ś
ch -> ś
t -> ć
ł -> l
n -> ń
However, due to a spelling convention, the diacritic (acute accent) above c/n/s/z is always omitted before the letter i. That's why it's spelled 'duzi', but the penultimate letter is still pronounced as a ź.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Polish/Nominative_case#Declension_for_adjectives_2