"La grosse fille"

[nikkhil]

i'm confused between "grosse" & "grande".sometimes they carry the same meaning in the sentence!

[Ollybound]

Can someone French comment about the use of "gros" and "grosse" in the daily life? Generally, are these adjectives more prone to qualify something "great", "big" (in space, an area, a volume, a geographic place, etc) or something like "fat" (big in "mass", "corpulent")?

[Sitesurf]

I am not sure there is any rule for safe translations from and to French.
You may want to check in a dictionnary.

Maybe examples will help you:

une grosse dame - fat

un gros chien - big

un gros chèque - at least 4 numbers!

une grosse voiture - power

un grand homme - great

un homme grand - tall

une grande voiture - space

une grande tour - high (Eiffel Tower or sky scraper)

[munchausend]

How can I make the difference between plural and singular in cases like this ?
For example here I wrote "grosses filles" instead of "grosse fille"

[Sitesurf]

You should focus on the article: singular LA, plural LES.