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"We are big men and big women."
Translation:Jsme velcí muži a velké ženy.
September 25, 2017
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lhgates
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It seems as if the nouns and adjectives change spelling in plurals. How do you know? Is it just memorization?
Velcí is masculine animate plural. Velké is the plural form for both feminine and masculine INanimate. You can see the full declension table at this handy site: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/velk%C3%BD.
The copula verb "být" / "to be" does not have a direct object in accusative, it links the subject "we" with a noun predicate that is in the nominative case. Later you will see that it can also be in the instrumental case.