"Duzi chłopcy kochają małe zwierzęta."
Translation:Big boys love small animals.
April 25, 2016
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The nominative ending that is added to virile adjectives is always -i, however, there are three stem endings that interact with -i and become something else:
- r + i -> rzy (dobrzy)
- k + i -> cy (lekcy)
- d + i -> dzy (dłudzy)
And duzi is no exception here. Note that a /żi/ combination does not exist, because /i/ is a softening (palatalising) vowel, which only allows soft consonants before it. The penultimate letter hence sounds like a /ź/, but the diacritic is omitted (implied) due to a spelling convention.
I'm afraid that virile nouns are a little bit more complicated than that, but here is a good overview of the rules:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Polish/Nominative_case#Declension_for_nouns_2