"Tady jsou velcí chlapci."
Translation:There are big boys here.
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I am certain it is. Maybe a bit less common that the accepted answer, but certainly not wrong.
Not quite the same. The lesson sentence gives the speaker either insider or outsider status and is a casual comment. The second version, in English, is not casual. It would be an astonished tourist or a boastful resident.
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A couple of questions ago, it used "velicí" with chlapci... Here is velcí. Are both acceptable?
I saw in a previous advice thread that "velcí" and "velicí" are both versions of the word for "big". Velky/veliky.
This sort of implies that while boys normally are small elsewhere, here they are especially big.
What is the difference between "velcí" and "velicí"? "velké" and "veliké", etc.?
They are synonymous and used almost interchangably, although I read in another discussion that the one with the extra syllable is used for a little extra emphasis, and that when referencing a historical figure that in English we'd call "the Great" (Catherine, Ivan, Alexander), you'd only ever use that version.
