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- "Εγώ είμαι ένας άντρας."
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Yes! Except that it is written ένας, not έναζ. The sigma becomes ς at the end of a word.
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So what is the difference with εγώ είμαι άντρας? When do you use έωας and when don't you?
If you want to give emphasis to the amount of men. For example "ένας" is also 'one" so you could be saying "I am only one man" Or if you want to give emphasis to the fact that you're a man. Like "I am a man"
But in general it is really no different , just another way of saying "εγώ είμαι άντρας" . Hope that helped a bit.
You can't be 2 or more men so... i think one "ένας" is not logic to use it here
It's not wrong, but definitely sounds better without the article, unless one wants to emphasize the following noun ("άντρας", in this case).
Είμαι ένα άντρας is wrong, because άντρας is male and ένα is neuter.
Είμαι ένας άντρας is the correct and it has been added as alternative sentence :)
"ένα" was just a typo. I was mainly wondering if "εγώ" could be omitted. Thanks for the correction and clarification.
Are there anything like french liaison here? Because i see είμαι ένας... and i hear ειμένας. Or it is just audio error?
In the audio, the lady actually says εγώ είμαι ένας, both epsilons are pronounced, they just sound like a longer epsilon. But, in Greek there is actually something like the french liaison. One could say "Εγώ είμ'ένας άντρας" and in oral speech, that is more likely to be said.
Άνδρας is also correct, actually acceptable in more cases (formal speech) despite duolingo claiming that it's a typo
After the verb “to be” in Greek, we have to use the nominative case?
Yes, and after γίνομαι "to become" as well.
(Similar to how it is in German, which I see you have also been learning.)
Does the program accept Greek letters? I tried using a Greek keyboard but it said i was wrong...
I cannot find the correct answer. My answer is, ego eimai enas andras. Need help.
Have you tried the greek keyboard? "Εγώ είμαι ένας άντρας (άνδρας in formal speech" is correct as an answer
@kaliope884107 I, too, am frustrated that the correct answer is not given on the Skills page -- it just gives the meaning in English and the not-too-helpful statement "you missed a word." But if we click through to the Discuss page (such as this one) for any question, the correct answer is given at the top. I hope this helps.
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I usually see man spelled άνδρας and am wondering why Duolingo doesn't recognize it
I believe that in listening exercises, only one spelling can be accepted.
Isn't the indefinite article supposed to be in the accusative case?
No.
είμαι is not a transitive verb that takes a direct object.
Both "sides" (the subject and the predicate) are in the nominative case.
(Hint: one way to understand that it's not a transitive verb is by trying to put it into the passive voice -- which turns a direct object into a subject. But you can't turn "I am a man" into "A man is been by me" -- that makes no sense. That's a clue that "a man" is not a direct object and "be" is not a transitive verb "acting" on an object.)
For the record, nobody would say it like that in real life (even though it's grammatically correct).
To say "I'm a man" in Greek, we'd just say "είμαι άντρας". "Εγώ" isn't needed since it's already included in the verb (είμαι means "I am"). "Ένας" is also unnecessarily since it would be impossible to say "I am two (or three, or four) men" and άντρας is singular anyway.
