"Nevidím velkou lišku, ale velkého psa."
Translation:I can't see a big fox but a big dog.
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The English translation here is an incorrect direct translation. This is not how this idea is articulated in English. "I don't see a big fox, but I see a big dog" is a possible solution.
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I thought this. Or if you wanted to avoid repeating 'see' you might possibly say: "I don't see a big fox; rather a big dog"
While it's certainly true that direct, literal translations often don't work out so well, I don't think that's a problem here. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the English sentence. Since DL allows for multiple translations, some alternatives may be accepted, too.
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If someone says "look at that big fox" and it looks like a dog to you, you would say "i don't see a big fox but a big dog" (example of how this sentence could be used)
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Is there a reason ‘the big [...]’ got rejected?
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"the big..." would be translated as "tu velkou..." or "toho velkeho.."
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Proč ne 'I can't see the big fox, but the big dog'?
As someone else has noted, there are no demonstrative pronouns in the Czech sentence. In their absence, the translation is usually with "a" rather than with "the."
Pes is nominative, What's needed here is the accusative for the direct object, so... psa. Declension available here (first table): https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/pes
