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by O.Zoe
Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: Τι κοιτάνε?
Replies: 2
Views: 304
Greece

Re: Τι κοιτάνε?

3rd person plural never ends in -αι in active voice. You can check here how verbs are conjugated.

The verb is κοιτάω. You need to check Β' Συζυγία (Conjugation B), Τάξη 1 (Class 1). The conjugation is similar to αγαπάω.

by O.Zoe
Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:25 am
Forum: Sentence discussions
Topic: Where do you see the Greeks? (en → hu)
Replies: 2
Views: 160
Greece

Re: Where do you see the Greeks? (en → hu)

It's so interesting to see how other nations call the Greeks. Anything but what we call ourselves... :p

by O.Zoe
Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:58 pm
Forum: Turkish
Topic: Final R pronunciation
Replies: 12
Views: 1675
Greece

Re: Final R pronunciation

Here is a song that says "yeni bir bahar" (1:08) and you can hear that breath sound in both "bir" and "bahar".
Yaşlı Amca - Ve Ben

by O.Zoe
Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:51 pm
Forum: Turkish
Topic: Aorist
Replies: 4
Views: 571
Greece

Re: Aorist

He changes car every year. Duo says: o her yıl araba değiştirir. Why not arabayı? We are not talking about a specific car in this sentence, because as DmGabin said, it's a different (unspecified) car every year. --- In all other practices in this lesson with Değiştirir, it’s accusative. Duo giysile...
by O.Zoe
Sat Nov 05, 2022 9:28 am
Forum: Turkish
Topic: Links to Tips
Replies: 1
Views: 449
Greece

Re: Links to Tips

I can see the tips up to the skill I've unlocked (Future tense), but I cannot see the ones I haven't unlocked yet. I suppose it makes sense - that's how it used to be. It's great that those links still work! Fingers crossed that they won't go down anytime soon.

by O.Zoe
Sat Nov 05, 2022 9:20 am
Forum: Μιλάω ελληνικά
Topic: Ελληνικές συζητήσεις
Replies: 1
Views: 491
Greece

Re: Ελληνικές συζητήσεις

--- Μπράβο σας που προσπαθείτε να γράψετε και να επικοινωνήσετε στα ελληνικά! Συμφωνώ μαζί σας πως η συνομιλία με άλλους ανθρώπους είναι πολύ καλή εξάσκηση - η καλύτερη, θα έλεγα! Υπάρχουν διάφορες ιστοσελίδες γι' αυτόν τον σκοπό. Για παράδειγμα, Tandem, iTalki και Conversation Exchange. Σ' αυτές μ...
by O.Zoe
Wed Nov 02, 2022 9:28 am
Forum: Turkish
Topic: Erkekler ve kadınlar okurlar. (en → tr)
Replies: 2
Views: 466
Greece

Re: Erkekler ve kadınlar okurlar. (en → tr)

--- " Adamlarla kadınlar okur. " is an accepted translation. https://i.postimg.cc/DzqM40c2/adamlarla-kadinlar.jpg --- "Adamlar kadınlarla okur." is not an accepted translation. I think I understand the difference, but I'd like someone to confirm, please. Does " X -(y)lA Y &...
by O.Zoe
Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:35 am
Forum: Duolingo
Topic: New path - less content ?
Replies: 8
Views: 1584
Greece

Re: New path - less content ?

Why acording this table the words in German or other courses are less that in the prevous path Which table?? Old table: https://ardslot.com/duolingocrowns.html New Table for the new path: https://ardslot.com/duolingodata.html The "new" table on your link looks a bit wrong. According to it...
by O.Zoe
Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:28 am
Forum: Sentence discussions
Topic: Come va la tua ricerca? (en → it)
Replies: 8
Views: 422
Greece

Re: Come va la tua ricerca? (en → it)

Reported this on 5 October 2022 for not accepting a more literal answer that Anglophones would understand. How goes your research? This isn't a grammatically correct sentence, though, is it? The point is not just to write a sentence that would be understood, but one that is grammatically correct. :)
by O.Zoe
Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:13 am
Forum: Sentence discussions
Topic: Qual è l'età dell'universo? (en → it)
Replies: 3
Views: 213
Greece

Re: Qual è l'età dell'universo? (en → it)

Reported this on 5 October 2022 for not accepting the Saxon genitive. What is the universe's age? I've noticed that you have reported the Saxon genitive several times so far. I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't have an opinion about it. However, I've read many posts from native English spe...
by O.Zoe
Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:56 pm
Forum: Duolingo
Topic: Drop down "hints" give me too much and not enough
Replies: 12
Views: 579
Greece

Re: Dop down "hints" give me too much and not enough

I'm keen to learn the grammar I need - but where do I learn what words like nominative mean ? Grammatical cases are categories of the different forms that some words take (nouns, articles, adjectives etc.). Each category usually has specific functions in a sentence. The nominative case is used main...
by O.Zoe
Thu Sep 29, 2022 5:39 pm
Forum: Duolingo
Topic: Drop down "hints" give me too much and not enough
Replies: 12
Views: 579
Greece

Re: Dop down "hints" give me too much and not enough

I read the tips but they don't help me so much - both tips and sentence discussions assume I understand what "nominative" means - and while I can google it - it is still an alien concept I'm not sure whether it's possible for someone to teach a language without using grammar terminology. ...
by O.Zoe
Thu Sep 08, 2022 12:18 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: What a funny letter, it looks so cute
Replies: 5
Views: 679
Greece

Re: What a funny letter, it looks so cute

UPDATE (30+ years now) Due to the new "monotonic system" of writing which is now the current system in Greece (prior to the "polytonic" which some use a lot and is not foul to use it) When a words that intonates and must have those "two upper dots" (διαλυτικά), then th...
by O.Zoe
Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:52 am
Forum: Greek
Topic: Unofficial Greek Stories
Replies: 2
Views: 611
Greece

Re: Unofficial Greek Stories

The new link is https://duostories.org/el-en By the way, some modifications are being made on the Greek stories lately, so you might see some changes in the near future; different order, older stories being replaced etc. In case you see a mistake or any issues, feedback is always welcomed either her...
by O.Zoe
Fri Sep 02, 2022 8:12 am
Forum: Duome's How-to Guides
Topic: Practice the same skill for XP
Replies: 42
Views: 6692
Greece

Re: Practice the same skill for XP

Does it make sense to report users who seem to use some kind of automation/scripting, or doesn't Duolingo care about it anyway? Yes, it does. This is what is mentioned on Duolingo's Community Guidelines Script or cheat maliciously Duolingo believes in honest learning. If you are scripting for the p...
by O.Zoe
Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:37 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: Learning Greek vocabulary
Replies: 16
Views: 1953
Greece

Re: Learning Greek vocabulary

Wiktionary is pretty good for the etymology of a word. In Modern Greek, we have many loanwords from Italian (and mostly Venetian). So any similarity between Greek and Spanish is usually via Latin. "Μπάνιο", for example, is a re-borrowing case. When words are borrowed from another language...
by O.Zoe
Wed Aug 31, 2022 2:48 pm
Forum: Italian
Topic: Update - variants not accepted?
Replies: 7
Views: 335
Greece

Re: Update - variants not accepted?

This is not random: duo wants everyone to keep losing hearts. Each alternative translation is added in the database by people, who happen to forget to add every possible one. Sometimes, even basic translations are missing. It's not intentional, though. That's why the report button exists. We report...
by O.Zoe
Tue Aug 30, 2022 1:25 pm
Forum: Turkish
Topic: Iyi bir kariyeri var -> accusative?
Replies: 2
Views: 401
Greece

Re: Iyi bir kariyeri var -> accusative?

"kariyeri" is in genitive in this sentence. "İyi bir kariyeri var" literally means " his/her good career exists" = " He/She has a good career" . The noun in nominative case is "kariyer". And then, for genitive, we have [benim] kariyer im [senim] kari...
by O.Zoe
Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:31 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: Greek alphabet & pronunciation
Replies: 10
Views: 807
Greece

Re: Greek alphabet & pronunciation

btw you say in the letter list that ρ is /r/ but then use /ɾ/ in the examples, so which one is it? 🤔 That was a slip-up. Thank you for bringing it up! I've edited it. --- According to linguist Amalia Arvaniti , Greek has one rhotic sound. This is pronounced as an alveolar tap [ɾ] word-initially and...
by O.Zoe
Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:49 pm
Forum: Duome's How-to Guides
Topic: Practice the same skill for XP
Replies: 42
Views: 6692
Greece

Re: Practice the same skill for XP

The person whose history you've shared seems to be doing lessons, not practicing a golden skill. Is it possible that they started the specific skill from level 1 and kept doing lessons until they brought it to level 4/5?

by O.Zoe
Sun Aug 21, 2022 10:52 am
Forum: Greek
Topic: Σε with verb αρέσω
Replies: 3
Views: 468
Greece

Re: Σε with verb αρέσω

When we have pronouns as objects, we use accusative case for a direct object. Σε βλέπω. (I see you) Την ακούω. (I'm listening to her) genitive case for an indirect object. Σου τη δίνω. (I'm giving it to you) Της το λέω. (I'm telling her about it) --- When we have nouns as objects, we use accusative ...
by O.Zoe
Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:17 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: Σε as a preposition of location
Replies: 2
Views: 342
Greece

Re: Σε as a preposition of location

it seems that with respect to location, in Greek it can be used both to indicate a static one, as in είναι στο μουσείο, and for movements towards a place: Περπατάμε στο μουσείο, is that true? Depending on context, "σε" can be translated to in, on, at, to ... When you want to be more speci...
by O.Zoe
Wed Aug 17, 2022 2:08 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: Learning Greek vocabulary
Replies: 16
Views: 1953
Greece

Re: Learning Greek vocabulary

Cifi wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:47 am

It seems that ανοιχτόχρωμο does not have to do with νύχτα. [...] ανοιχτό means open, and light only when used with colours.

That's right. ;)

ανοιχτός = light, fair
ανοιχτόχρωμος = light-coloured
σκούρος = dark
σκουρόχρωμος = dark-coloured

by O.Zoe
Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:59 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: Adjective patterns
Replies: 3
Views: 481
Greece

Re: Adjective patterns

--- As Phil said, there are quite many adjective groups. Adjectives that end in -ος, -η, -ο are the most common. ο ελεύθερος - η ελεύθερη - το ελεύθερο (free) adjectives that end in -ος, -α, -ο ο νέος - η νέα - το νέο (new), ο γκρίζος - η γκρίζα - το γκρίζο (grey), ο καινούργιος - η καινούργια - το...
by O.Zoe
Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:34 am
Forum: Turkish
Topic: O, adamla kadının arasında. (en → tr)
Replies: 6
Views: 1286
Greece

Re: O, adamla kadının arasında. (en → tr)

MustafaOuz526752 wrote: Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:10 pm

Oh, no. You would use the phrase "araya girmek" for this particular meaning, as in o, adamla kadının arasına girdi.

Okay, that makes sense. Teşekkürler!

by O.Zoe
Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:39 am
Forum: Greek
Topic: δε/δεν, τη/την
Replies: 6
Views: 747
Greece

Re: δε/δεν, τη/την

I would recommend that you follow the rule, but have in mind that many native Greeks will not. It's not a big deal. In case you don't want to bother remembering which consonants retain the -ν, remember that it's preferable to always keep it instead of dropping it when you shouldn't (e.g. in front of...
by O.Zoe
Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:33 am
Forum: Greek
Topic: Τι είναι ροζ;
Replies: 7
Views: 533
Greece

Re: Τι είναι ροζ;

It could mean both. However, personally, I would say "Τι είναι το «ροζ»;" or "Τι σημαίνει «ροζ»;" (What does "pink" mean?) to ask for a definition. It sounds better grammatically and there is no ambiguity. If I heard "Τι είναι ροζ;" out of context, I would ass...
by O.Zoe
Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:51 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: δε/δεν, τη/την
Replies: 6
Views: 747
Greece

Re: δε/δεν, τη/την

The sentences in the previous Tree didn't follow the final -ν rule, so only δεν was used. Δε wasn't even a lexeme, I think. It was added in a later Tree update, but all sentences had to be edited one by one. "Δεν μένω στην Ασία" is the older version; "Δε μένω στην Ασία" is the cu...
by O.Zoe
Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:43 pm
Forum: Greek
Topic: τι and ποιος/α/ο
Replies: 1
Views: 229
Greece

Re: τι and ποιος/α/ο

to ask e.g. for a name, an address, a phone number and so on, you need cuál instead of qué: ¿cuál es tu nombre/dirección/número de teléfono? It's the same in Greek. Ποιο είναι τ' όνομά σου; = What's your name? Ποιος είναι ο αριθμός σου; = What's your number? Ποια είναι η διεύθυνσή σου; = What's you...
by O.Zoe
Sat Jul 30, 2022 3:05 pm
Forum: Random Thoughts
Topic: Translator Jumble
Replies: 463
Views: 72555
Greece

Re: Translator Jumble

I should delete Greek from my list as I don't speak it well enough yet. But there's O.Zoe who's native If O.Zoe wishes to participate, I encourage them to also have a hand in Turkish translations :D Vay vay! I'm afraid I only know "Duolingo Turkish". Your sentences are too advanced for my...

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