Besides the pun, I'm italian and can't think of a single case where "grande" could be translated as "hard" o.O

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I literally can't even

Yes officer, this comment right here

Naughty! :P :P

Domanda alla lei, quanto anni tui? ... im sure i did that non buono

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LMAO! Are you sure?!

Anthony is a pervert.

I agree. It is perfectly normal in english to say big and little in reference to age. This is most evident when referring to siblings. "My big brother" or "my little sister"

Time and age are measurements too though.

I actually put "She is little and I am big" and it took it.

I agree. .. small or little and big or large

Yes, the sentence is not fitting, grande is big and picola small, as per google, A Duodingo...

I Think the same

I agree. I've never seen "piccolo/piccolo" and "grande/grandi" used as young and old. I think if it's going to have more than one meaning, there should be a note on the page in reference to these words so that they tell us ALL the meanings. Otherwise, it's like we're all being ambused.

The same in Spanish, when little boys are growing up they say: Yo soy grande y él es pequeño - I am big and he is small. But they are saying they are older

dictionary says it's used as "grown up", not as "old"

No literally, but one can deduce that (very) young people are small, and old(er) people are big(ger).

It's not..

Had the same question!

... Literally you are right, but in context you state more often such a sentence in term of age, it is a pretty childish sentence.

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That's exactly what I've put, and it said I'm wrong. Sod it then, who am I to argue with this free app which is helping me out haha Good job there are comments now with the lessons.

vecchio: old, giovane: young. so lei e vecchia ed io sono giovane would be more apt that what they are suggesting

I would've used vecchia/o and giovane, since those are more appropriate choices.

Isn't it just e and ed? (used like a and an are in English)

Mostly use 'ed' when the 'and' is between two vowels that are the same. For when it is between two vowels that are not the same I'm afraid that the rule is 'when it sounds better'

I think ed is used before vowels

This isn't a basic rule, but I think it helps:

http://italian.about.com/od/grammar/a/aa091708a.htm

E and ed

There are two words for "and" in Italian: e and ed. Replacing the more common e with ed is greatly dictated by personal preference. Rule of thumb: use it when the surrounding vowels are the same, e.g. scimmie ed elefanti.

source: Dualingo

It can be both (ie. it can also be male).

I think that would be basso and alto.

Seriously? "Large" in this context is so scary °^°

Funny!

If the second word begin with a (omg, idk how are named "a, e, i, o, u"), you should use "ed", in the other case, you should use "e". In some cases, there are exceptions. Like in poems(?), etc..

E and ed

There are two words for "and" in Italian: e and ed. Replacing the more common e with ed is greatly dictated by personal preference. Rule of thumb: use it when the surrounding vowels are the same, e.g. Scimmie ed elefanti.

Source: Duolingo

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".

Because they are using adjectives, not comparatives.

Piccolo is the masculine singular, and piccola is the feminine singular.

Ex: Lui è piccolo. Lei è piccola.

When 'e' is followed by a vowel, it turns into 'ed' in order to make the two words clearly different. Otherwise you'd get something sounding like 'eyio'.

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.

Hey, foreigner! "Grande" is how children call the adults... The most common translation for 'old' (like a 70 years old person) is vecchio. It would be disrespectful, though, if you told an old person "sei vecchio": a nicer and more formal word is anziano.

Yep, it depends on context; but in this case, generally, there are all the means.

It's an idiomatic usage, similar to the way many people in English refer to their elder siblings as 'big brother' or 'big sister' and younger siblings as 'little brother' or 'little sister'

They might not be in the hints, but the hints are not aware of context and are not to be fully trusted. In this context piccola and grande can mean young and old without the individual words meaning that all the time. As one of the options for translating this phrase.

My mistake, I had a typo. This is in fact accepted.

Before words beginning with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u), use 'ed' - thus 'ed io', 'ed una', etc. Before words beginning with a consonant, use 'e'.

Or small or.........

I think those are more usual; 'grande' here is being used in a childish sense I believe, as in 'I'm a big boy now', kind of thing.

A correct answer. But since we refer to older siblings as big brother or big sister, and younger siblings as little brother and little sister, it is not that unexpected that it is used in a similar way in Italian.

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Big sister, little brother, hello little boy/girl, etc. etc. Just like in English Italian also occasionally uses the words for 'big' and 'little' to indicate whether someone is older or younger.

Perhaps, when you've been here longer you'll learn to read the comments before posting. You are only partly correct. The giovane and vecchio are a possible translation but so is piccola and grande, have you never heard of big brothers and little sisters?

In the same sense that in English 'big brother' refers to 'older brother'

You may find that if you read the comments your question has often already been asked and answered. Literally piccolo/piccola means small, and grande means big. But in the same sense that people refer to their siblings as 'big sister' or 'little brother' it can in a very similar way be used to implicate a relative age.

That's a correct translation, but not the only one. Or if you had an older sibling who you managed to grow taller than would then refer to as 'little brother' or 'little sister' even though they were older than you?

I try to make things easier for the morons here and they down vote me. That makes them even bigger morons.

It's showing another way of using the measuring terms 'big' and 'small' if you want to talk in a childish way about people's children or your own children.

'Oh my goodness, aren't your little ones getting so big!'

Good way to encourage self-consciousness and anorexia in sensitive young people.