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I don't understand what's the change betwwen "velký/velké/..." and "veliká" O.o!
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I have just read it... I don't get the point. Is it femenine. If it is, what about "velká"?
Veliký/veliká/veliké is simply a variant of velký/velká/velké. Maybe a little expressive.
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Ooooh! Ok! Now I got it. A littel expressive? In what way? Jsut for curiosity :3
I think it is a personal opinion. Sometimes i say "velký" and sometimes "veliký" because a noun I use it with makes me pronounce it one way or the other. Sounds better is easier to pronounce, etc. There is one case, where "Veliký, Veliká" is used exclusively though and that is when we speak about a person that has "Great" behind their name. Ivan the Great, Katherine the Great, Alexander the Great. They are always Ivan Veliký, Kateřina Veliká and Alexander Veliký. Never "velký".
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Who knows whether and how, or not, that "skvely" word might pertain to the idea of being "Great"? (as kacenka9 discussed with you, Shathu) Excuse my keyboard, prosim.
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I also put ''is it big'' and was given the thumbs up. So is it ''it'' or ''she''? I don't think any woman would like to be referred to as ''it''
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It may not necessarily be a person, but a thing or an animal. Many of them have a female gender in Czech.
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No. "Velicí" is the ending for masculine animate nouns in plural. - Jsou velicí? Are they big? ("they" refers to masculine animate nouns in this sentence).
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duolingo's translation for "je velika" was "is she big". I just didn't know if that was the only option and why.
Why is "tall" not correct? A person is usually tall rather than big.
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Tall would be "vysoký/vysoká/vysoké", as in vertical sense on height. "Velký/velká/velké" is big in a spatial sense, it could mean she is fat or she has broad shoulders. It is just a niche difference.
