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Bipolar rating inventories developed by American authors in order to identify the Big-Five were translated into Czech and German. By analysing 171 bipolar adjectives, several goals were pursued: (I) to confirm the existence of the expected structure of the Big-Rye at bipolar rating scales in Czech and German; (2) to find out whether the factors derived from the analysis of the Big-Five markers have got the same meaning both in Czech and German; (3) to select appropriate feature descriptors representing particular dimensions of the Big-Five in Czech; (4) to establish a validating criterion for the interpretation of factors out of the representative set of dispositional adjectives. The analysis of the main components of 171 bipolar scales at both self- and peer- ratings has provided us with five dominant factors in Czech as well as in German. The values of the congruence coefficients display the high rate of coherence in rating factors in both languages and soups. The extracted Czech and German factors can be interpreted in the sense of five-factor model, such as Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability, and Imagination/Openness.