"Tady jsou velcí chlapci."

Translation: There are big boys here.

[LeinadSpoon]

How about "Big boys are here" as an acceptable translation?

[kacenka9]

it is now

[LeinadSpoon]

Thanks for all of the effort you're putting in to this course! I'm finding it very helpful.

[DarrylMose]

A couple of questions ago, it used "velicí" with chlapci... Here is velcí. Are both acceptable?

[ibelcic]

I saw in a previous advice thread that "velcí" and "velicí" are both versions of the word for "big". Velky/veliky.

[andyzorin]

"Boys are big here" - not acceptable :( ?

[ibelcic]

This sort of implies that while boys normally are small elsewhere, here they are especially big.

[Russ870203]

Why did it reject "Here there are big boys"?

[VladaFu]

Is it correct English?

[Russ870203]

I am certain it is. Maybe a bit less common that the accepted answer, but certainly not wrong.

[VladaFu]

Added, please also use the "My answer should be accepted" report.

[WendyLestina]

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.

[mcarpenter215]

What is the difference between "velcí" and "velicí"? "velké" and "veliké", etc.?

[JordiFaxon]

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.

[William916521]

What about "Boys here are big."

[VladaFu]

No, that means something different. Chlapci tady jsou velcí.

[Gilbert334611]

But
Here are big boys
seems me quite literaly.

[VladaFu]

"Here are big boys" is an accepted translation.