"Lei è piccola ed io sono grande."
Translation:She is little and I am big.
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Yes, in Spanish it can mean that, but, as apparently in Italian too, it would be something said by children. By the way, "ella es pequeñA y yo soy grande".
I still try to find out whether the adjective "grande" has male and female forms... but I can't read http://www.wordreference.com/definizione/grande yet :-(
Is "grande" for male written the same as "grande" for female?
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Yes, it is the same for both genders. Look, for example in http://www.wordreference.com/definizione/rosso or http://www.wordreference.com/definizione/piccolo .
In all of them, after the definitions you have "Forme flesse di..." and it gives you the possible variations. For rosso you have rossa, rossi, rosse, and for piccolo you have piccola, piccoli, piccole. For grande its just grande, grandi.
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yes, because "piccola" can be used in the sense of "small girl" and "grande" in the sense of "big girl/boy"
Old is indeed vecchio, but grande can be used to mean old (or older) in a similar sense to the way that a lot of English speakers refer to their elder sibling as a 'big brother' or 'big sister' and their younger siblings as 'little brother' and 'little sister'. Even if the genetic lottery has the actual size discrepancy not being that big or one of them overtaking the other.
Even if it's an idiom, the phrase by itself doesn't necessarely give the user any given information that it only refers to age. If you say "tu sei piccola" for me that means you are small, but it can also as you say refer to the age of a person. But it should also be correct to write she is (she's) small and i am (i'm) big.
The word for tall is "alto", the word for big/large is "grande". I don't agree that "I am tall" would sounds more correct... if so, the sentence would have begun, "Lei è bassa ... " [feminine "short", as in height]. In English, little and small have the same meaning, but if you talk about height you would normally say "short" instead of "little", especially if you are then comparing them to a tall person. It would not sound right to say "She is little, he is tall". Does that make sense?
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Is small different to little in Italian? I was markef wrong for saying small. They're the same to me!
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Somebody tell me what the difference between small and little is? According to Duolingo they are NOT the same. The opposite of big is NOT small, it's little and you're WRONG if you think otherwise. Im guessing every single internet translation site I can find are wrong then.....