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I don't understand what's the change betwwen "velký/velké/..." and "veliká" O.o!
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.
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".
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.
It could be if you were talking about an object that is feminine in Czech.
For example "Prý máš novou vanu. Je veliká?" - "I heard you have a new bathtub. Is it big?"
Sorry, but I don't understand why are you replying to me. Jamie08MD said that "Jé veliká" could not be translated as Is it big because that would be "Je to veliké?" and I told him/her that not necessarily, implying that Je veliká could actually be translated as "Is it big?", of course.
Sorry for any confusion. I was just confirming, for anyone who might be lost in the flow of messages, that "Is it big?" is now an accepted translation. It may not have been at the time of Jamie08MD's post.
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.
Indeed, JanHenke3. The word "věc" (thing) have female gender, and animal could be female. Good point.
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).
duolingo's translation for "je velika" was "is she big". I just didn't know if that was the only option and why.
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.
