"Οι γυναίκες διαβάζουν μία εφημερίδα."

Translation: The women read a newspaper.

[MarksAaron]

Is εφημερίδα related to the English word "ephemeral"? If so, is εφημερίδα literally "daily"?

[Theo_Matrakas]

I think yes :)

[Kouichi-C-N]

Confirmed.

Late 16th century from Greek ephēmeros (see ephemera) + -al.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/ephemeral

[gsazbon]

So gyneacology is the study of the women.
Greek is great

[helen55123]

Thank you so much ( I am greek)

[kirakrakra]

γυναικολογία rather the study of woman diseases. And γυναικοκρατία gynaecocrazy

[Zerr_]

Does Greek distinguish between "The women are reading different newspapers" and "The women are reading one newspaper together"? If so, which one is meant here?

[costa.dlingo]

It could mean both but it is more likely the latter

[Zerr_]

How would I say "The women are reading different newspapers"? The same way as in English?

[Theo_Matrakas]

Οι γυναίκες διαβάζουν διαφορετικές εφημερίδες

[Zerr_]

Ευχαριστώ!

[HaraldDrum]

Hold up διαβάζουν is both the present and the present perfect tense of "to read"?

[HaraldDrum]

I mean simple present and continuious present tense

[mizinamo]

Yes, Greek does not distinguish between those two tenses in the way English does.

[TheM11Mum]

could someone please explain when μία gets accented here? In a different question, διαβάζουν μια εφημερίδα, DIDN'T get an accent...?

[kirakrakra]

Both μία and μια are correct. You can use the one you want.

[TheM11Mum]

Thanks for your response. Duo told me I had a typo and shouldn't have accented it in the example where there were no words ahead of the 'they read'.

[Koski15]

And now it says I am wrong because I did not give an accent to mia.

[Ida761526]

In the tips it said that ‘μίά is a numerical article and in English you’d use it as ‘one’. On the other hand ‘μια’ without the dot on is an indefinite article; so, in English you would use it as ‘a/an. E.g one woman μία γυναικα, whereas for a woman ‘μια γυναίκα.

[kirakrakra]

the indefinite article a and the numerical article one =

ένας, μια and μία, ένα (masc, fem.neut)

[GraceDougl8]

Would like to know why 'the' in the sentence "the women......" could not be ''το γυνίκες" as well as οι

[mizinamo]

Wrong gender and number.

το is the definite article for neuter singular, but γυναίκες is feminine plural.

[Williamlegal]

Why διαβαζον can't be translated as "read" in this phrase?

[mizinamo]

It can.

[MonicaJG98]

Could this sentence say: "The women read a newspaper" without the present continous?

[mizinamo]

Yes.

[Iliannav]

My answer was correct 3 times but says it's not

[mizinamo]

What was your answer?

[Heysoos1]

Is the η silent? What's the rule?

[elementkon]

My answer is correct

[jaye16]

TIPS TO HELP YOU LEARN + HOW TO REPORT A PROBLEM

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/22424028

[ScoCoda]

What's the difference between μια and μία?

[jaye16]

"μία" is the feminine number "one" while "μια" is the feminine article "a/an". As you would expect they are most often used interchangeably by native speakers and we accept them both on all sentences on Duolingo. For this sentence I would prefer..."μια". If you ever take a very important Greek exam you might want to be careful.