"Alle haben ein großes Fenster."
Translation:Everyone has a big window.
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It has a weak determiner so it has to have a strong adjective.
Whenever you have a noun phrase, you generally have a determiner at the front, then a chain of adjectives, and finally a noun at the end. "The big bad wolf" has a determiner "the" two adjectives, and a noun. Determiners in English include words like the, a, one, two, some, many, etc.
In German, a determiner is strong if it has endings like der does. It is weak if it doesn't have an ending. It's also weak if it isn't there at all. (Typically with plurals.)
A strong adjective takes pretty much the same endings as der does. A weak adjective only takes -e or -en, depending on the number, case, and gender.
I have a system to memorize the different case endings, if you want to look at it. Everyone seems to have their own take on the best way to learn them, but this is what works for me.
http://gregreflects.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-to-memorize-german-cases.html
You have another useful link for the ending of adjective
http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/grammar/adjektivendungenexpl.html
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This is not a phonetic thing but a morphosyntatic matter. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gro%C3%9F#Declension
"großes" is used for neuter words that are the direct object of the sentence, and have an indefinite article. These pages may help with adjective endings:
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Could "Alle", used at the beginning of a sentence, refer to objects (such as "alle Häuser“)?
https://yourdailygerman.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/meaning-alle/
This is very useful site in helping your understanding of the use of Alle and how it differs to Jedes. Hope it helps :-)
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Perhaps because every apartment in a building, every cabin on a cruise ship, every roomette on a passenger train, etc. has one.
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Further to our discussion of sight lines, because of the design of the cruise ship, everyone has a large window. However not every one of our cruise ships is designed in this way. We hope that in the future every one of our ships will give everyone a large window.