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Discussion in 'Greece' started by panagiotists13, Jun 9, 2014.

  1. panagiotists13

    panagiotists13 Active Member

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    Hello everybody again!You have already seen nationalities and languages in Greek,now let me how you the countries and their adjectives.For example,we can say that s/thing is Chinese instead of saying that it was made in China.These adjectives are not written with a capital letter and they describe the origin of an object,not of a person.
    η Ελλάδα=Greece
    η Γαλλία=France
    η Γερμανία=Germany
    η Ιταλία=Italy
    η Ισπανία=Spain
    η Σουηδία=Sweden
    η Αλγερία=Algeria
    η Κίνα=China
    η Ινδία=India
    η Ολλανδία=Holland
    η Αυστραλία=Australia(it is pronounced Afstralia)
    το Βέλγιο=Belgium
    and the adjectives...
    (ο) ελληνικός/(η) ελληνική/(το) ελληνικό
    γαλλικός/γαλλική/γαλλικό
    γερμανικός/γερμανική/γερμανικό
    ιταλικός/ιταλική/ιταλικό
    ισπανικός/ισπανική/ισπανικό
    σουηδικός/σουηδική/σουηδικό
    αλγερινός/αλγερινή/αλγερινό
    κινέζικος/κινέζικη/κινέζικο
    ινδικός/ινδική/ινδικό
    ολλανδικός/ολλανδική/ολλανδικό
    αυστραλιανός/αυστραλιανός/αυστραλιανό
    βελγικός/βελγική/βελγικό
    I hope you learnt a lot of things today,tomorrow I will show you some basic grammar rules about adjectives and some basic vocabulary!!!
     
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    Unfortunately I did Latin at school, not Greek (it would have been easier to perform the language). First I will have to memorize the vocabulary: alpha, beta, gamma... (very useful in Maths).
     
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    Well,I think that you are lucky taht you have no ancient Greek experience.It's much more difficult and unuseful than modern Greek.You should learn modern Greek first,and then ancient Greek!!!
     
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    Yes but surely it could be useful for reading words with pronunciation of letters?
    BTW you should put a picture in your profile, it's nicer for posts on forums :)
     
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    Now let's see some basic and very useful adjectives to describe somebody or something.There are three genres in Greek and here the adjectives are written with this form masculin/female/neuter.
    όμορφος/όμορφη/όμορφο=beautiful
    καλός/καλή/καλό=good
    γρήγορος/γρήγορη/γρήγορο=fast
    κρύος/κρύα/κρύο=cold
    ζεστός/ζεστή/ζεστό=hot
    άνετος/άνετη/άνετο=comfortable
    You can combine these adjectives with Greek nouns,but they must be in the same genree.You can't say η γρήγορη αυτοκίνητο because the word αυτοκίνητο(=car) is neuter.So,you must say το γρήγορο αυτοκίνητο!!!And here are some nouns so you can combine these adjectives to practice.
    ο άντρας=the man
    η γυναίκα=the woman
    το παιδί=the child
    το αγόρι=the boy
    το κορίτσι=the girl
    το αυτοκίνητο=the car
    το φαγητό=the food
    EXERCISE:
    Translate these phrases from Greek to English:
    το ζεστό φαγητό
    η όμορφη γυναίκα
    το άνετο αυτοκίνητο
    το καλό παιδί
    The solutions are...
    the hot food
    the beautiful woman
    the comfortable car
    the good child
     
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    As you might have understood,all the adjectives that you have learnt end in-ος,in the female they change to -η and in the neuter they change to -ο.Of course,there are a lot of exceptions, but this is the general rule.
     
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    And here are the jobs in Greek.
    ο δημοσιογράφος=the journalist
    ο πιλότος=the pilot
    ο μουσικός=the musician
    ο δικηγόρος=the lawyer
    ο μάγειρας=the cook
    ο μάγος=the magician
    ο δάσκαλος=the teacher
    ο καθηγητής=the teacher
    The feminin are
    η δημοσιογράφος
    η πιλότος
    η μουσικός
    η δικηγόρος
    η μαγείρισσα
    η μάγισσα
    η δασκάλα
    η καθηγήτρια
    Some nouns are the same in both genders,but some change their ending or even their accent.
    The difference between δάσκαλος/δασκάλα and καθηγητής/καθηγήτρια is that the first is used to speak about a primary teacher,while the second is used to speak about a secondary/university teacher.
     
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    Bonjour,

    Aurais-tu un bon plan pour trouver un séjour linguistique en Grèce en aout 2017?
    Difficile de trouver cela sur la toile !
    Merci d'avance
     
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