"He sees a big castle and a big bear."
Translation:On vidí velký hrad a velkého medvěda.
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As someone who is not a native Czech speaker, I feel that I should explain here that both "hrad" and "medvěd" are masculine nouns, but that the reason that the adjectives modifying them are different in the accusative case ("velký" as opposed to "velkého") is due to a distinction between what is animate and what is inanimate. Velkého describes medvěda because bears are living things. Castles are inanimate, so they just use velký. I lived for a year in Olomouc when I was 19, and I remember this being a challenging aspect of an already difficult language.
I love it that our keen course designers use a limited vocabulary of nouns, adjectives and verbs while letting us see the ins and outs of inflections as logical and based on models. Gripe: some 3rd party dictionaries don't include a noun's gender.
hrad is non animated (castle) medvěd is an animate animal (bear) both are masculin, remember for animated use ý (velký) in the end, inaniamted use ého (velkého).
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The bear is a direct object in this sentence. Medvěd is nominative; medvěda is accusative. Declension table available here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medv%C4%9Bd
on vidi = he sees, but earlier I put "Ja vidim" - "I see" and it was pronounced wrong.Why???? (Sorry I cannot put accents here.)
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