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Should "What do you have under your shirt?" be accepted? I know that the possessive is not present in the Greek sentence, but I thought that in English it was usual to add it for this kind of sentence.
No, it can't be accepted with "under your shirt" if that's not what the Greek has.
"beneath" is accepted. If your sentence was rejected you should have made a report. Just one word doesn't show us what errors you might have had.
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It should accept "under your shirt" cause that's the obvious contextual inference...I can't have something under someone else's shirt, can I
That's not what it says, but if you read my comment above about the shirt being under something else...as for example in a drawer, or a suitcase, the washing machine, etc you'll see that it's possible. It doesn't mention that you are wearing a shirt.
In this car the Greek is equivalent to the Spanish "qué tienes debajo de la camisa" nearly word by word. And yes, it's slightly ambiguous, but we'd never say "debajo de TU camisa" in normal circumstances. However we would translate it "under your shirt" as we'd assume it's the second person's shirt. I've got the Greek right because I know how literal Duo is, but in normal conversation that's how I'd interpret it
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Απο seems to be a versatile word. It has 6 different meanings according to google translate depending of course on if an accent is used and if you use an ω on accident.
And that confirms how bad Google translate is, when it comes to Greek at least...
There's no από without an accent and there's no απώ either. ;) Sure, it can be translated to English in various ways. :)
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Yeah whenever I learn something new in Greek I try to write it down immediately in google translate and play around with that for a little bit. I find myself defaulting to "ο" instead of "ω". What would you recommend as a resource instead of google translate?
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What would you ever use this sentence in real life for? Or is it just one of those sentences that are purely for practise?
As with most of our words "yes, they are for practice". But this one could be used for example: "I see something new in your drawer, what do you have under the shirt." Silly, maybe but with a need to create thousands of sentences under strict vocabulary and syntax restrictions ...that happens.
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SilverOwl2,actually it's a very useful question when things start developing with a pretty Greek γυναίκα you just met.
These vague, undefined sentences are something like a Rorschach test. You can read whatever you like into them. If you read the other comments on this page you will notice there is no reference to anyone wearing a shirt, as well as other interpretations.
