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The word "πίνεις" is probably why they never had any exclusively Greek dialogues in My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
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Wow never thought that a word I use everyday sounds like... another word (you know...)
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This happens a lot in languages.
Polish word for green bean: bób (ó = oo)
"peach" means "lady parts" in Turkish
"kiss" means "urine" in Swedish.
Suka means to eat in Indonesian. But it's the Slavic word for a "female dog"
Oh and queue means tail in French but is commonly used to refer to a guy's "special part"
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Peach doesn't have any meaning in Turkish. (Native here) But a certain word that's ptonounced the same as pitch (as a musical pitch) is the rude way of saying an illegitimate children (think of John Snow in GoT).
And another one; if you pronounce the word "am", as in I am with the a as in car, that would mean lady parts.
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If you can pronounce the /x/ sound as "ch" in "loch", you can have a greek gamma by voicing this sound.
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Basically it's close to the sound of "y" when it acts as a consonant, like in "yard", "yes", "yolk" etc. There is an IPA pronunciation here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C9%A3
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Why is Εσείς or Εμείς not correct here? I seem to always forget this keep getting it wrong
Because the verb form is wrong.
- εσύ πίνεις
- αυτός πίνει
- εσείς πίνετε
- εμείς πίνουμε
So if you see the verb form πίνεις, the subject has to be εσύ.
Much as you can't say "you am drinking" or "he am drinking"; if you see "am", the subject has to be "I".
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Does Greek have different "you(s)" like in Spanish (tú/usted) or Russian (ты/вы)?
Yes.
It works like in Russian or French -- the polite form for one person is the same as the plural form.
εσύ is "you (one person, whom I know well)"; εσείς is any of "you (several people, whom I know well)", "you (several people, whom I do not know well)", or "you (one person, whom I do not know well)".
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Ευχαριστώ, thank you very much! Now I know and have to remember it. Two lingots for you.
"You are drinking milk." is another possible translation of this Greek sentence and should also be accepted.
