"Is he big?"
Translation:Je veliký?
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Both adjectives can mean "big" and generally they can be used interchangeably. And both can be be used in either a question or a statement.
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It seems "je to velky" is incorrect? I thought "she" was translated as "to" in a previous exercise, but that doesn't seem to work here for "he".
Depends on what that previous exercise was.... If it was something like "she's a woman", it can be translated to "je to žena", just like "he's a man" could be "je to muž". In both sentences, we can also say "that's a woman" or "that's a man" in English.
Here, it's impossible to replace "he" with "it" or "that" and it's likewise impossible to replace "on" (unexpressed) with "to".
"Je to velký?" makes no sense in standard Czech, "to" is neuter and it must be "Je to velké?" and then you're asking about an "it".
Side note: In the other direction though, "Je velký?" can also mean "Is it big?" in English in case the Czech question refers to a masculine-gendered thing, for example a house (Je ten dům velký? -> Je velký? -> Is it big?)
Jsi is the second person singular form of the verb. But the third person form je is needed here, to match up with the third-person subject "he".