"Rōvys hontes issa."

Translation: It is a big bird.

[doktorschr]

THE BIRD IS BIG, COST ME SO MANY SECONDS OF MY LIFE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

[Duncan736410]

The sentence still needs to be read from left to right, so the sentence would either read "The big is bird," which isn't proper English, or "The big bird is," and reflexive verbs need an object in English, thus the sentence must be "It is the big bird."

[AllesLerner]

Why isn't "the bird is big" correct?

[ThoricWeevil]

Because the adjective is next to the subject. To say "the bird is big", the adjective would in the middle.