Usages of magnus
Familia est magna.
The family is large.
Magna familia in domo habitat.
The large family lives in a house.
Oppidum est magnum, sed non est urbs.
(The town is large, but it is not a city.)
In insula magna silva est, et multi senes ibi habitant.
(On the large island there is a forest, and many old men live there.)
Discipula magnum equum amat.
The female student loves the large horse.
Femina magnum equum videt.
The woman sees the large horse.
Domus magna est.
The house is large.
In domo nostra magna ianua et paucae fenestrae sunt.
In our house there is a large door and few windows.
In villa coquus cenam magnam coquit.
In the villa the cook is cooking a large dinner.
Olim pater pecuniam lente numerabat, nam numeri magni erant.
Once father was slowly counting the money, for the numbers were large.
Numerus in libro magnus est.
The number in the book is large.
Magister magnam tabulam parat ut discipuli verba nova clare scribant.
The teacher prepares a large board so that the students may clearly write the new words.
Puer dicit: "Hic hortus parvus est, ille autem hortus prope flumen magnus et pulcher est."
The boy says: "This garden is small, but that garden near the river is large and beautiful."
Coquus in culina manet, ut cenam magnam finire possit.
The cook stays in the kitchen so that he can finish the large dinner.
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