"Those people are big!"

Translation: Ti lidé jsou velcí!

[Janmunroe]

Would "Ty osoby jsou velke" be correct as well?

[VladaFu]

It is accepted.

[Caprice1510]

what makes it a masculine sentence?

[VladaFu]

Lidé is plural of člověk. Masculine.

[Elseddeh]

Do we judge a plural gender based on it's ending or based on the gender of it's singular?

[VladaFu]

Well, both, to some extent. The main is the singular gender, but there can be a modification that makes an inanimate noun animate. E.g., den -> dny (inanimate), but dni (animate) or even very poetic and bookish dnové (animate).

[Zpatky]

Ti osoby jsou velci - not accepted?

[VladaFu]

ty osoby jsou velké - osoba is feminine

[hmitev]

Couldn't i say in that order: "Ti jsou velcí lidé" ?

[VladaFu]

That would mean "Those are big people."

[Dlehrke]

Ti lidé jsou velcí! - This is specifically for a group of men, correct?

[endless_sleeper]

Nope. Grammar gender does not equate real-world' gender. Lidé is masculine animate, that's why you use velcí.

[esamota]

Why can't you say "Ti lide jsou velke"? What type of form is "velci"?

[VladaFu]

Velcí is required for masculine animate.

[james852954]

i made a mistake so correct me i use ( i ) as in velci. to people i dont know
and ( s") as in proc" nejis" to people i do know or children???

[VladaFu]

I have no idea what you are telling us. Please do not use so many question marks!!! It may look rude exactly like those three exclamation marks I just used.

[BoneheadBass]

I don't quite understand what you're asking about either. If you'll try again, maybe we can help.

[GiuseppeCa213668]

Hello, again I don't understand why "To" is not accepted

[Marko195]

"To" is not used / translated in this sentence because the demonstrative pronoun "to" is separated from the noun as an independent subject.

Ti ludé = Those people

To jsou ludé = Those are people

[Gilbert334611]

I changed the position of jsou and velci - wrong.
:-(

[hmitev]

:( me too

[VladaFu]

See my answer to hmitev.

[Gilbert334611]

Ano, dekuji.

[Jo811831]

Why is it sometimes "Ti" and sometimes "Ty", for example "Ti lidé..." and "Ty stroje"? I thought both are masculine words?

[BoneheadBass]

Yes, both words are masculine. But ti lidé is masculine animate, while ty stroje is masculine INanimate. Czech makes this animate/inanimate distinction only for grammatically masculine nouns.