"Αυτή είναι η φιλοσοφία."
Translation:This is philosophy.
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Both "this is philosophy" and "this is the philosophy" are accepted as correct translations; and yet in English, these have different meanings. Is this just one of those many ambiguities in cross-language communication, or is there another answer/perspective?
What is this alleged difference in English? I know one is using the definite article, but without context, I don't see how it differs.
Please explain, thank you.
In the lesson before, I learned that Αυτή means 'she' and here it's refered to 'this'. What is the exact meaning of this word?
Αυτή is both a personal and a demonstrative pronoun.
The emphasized III:rd persons are αυτός conjugated: αυτ-ός; αυτοί, αυτή; αυτές, αυτό; αυτά = he; they (masculine gender), she; they (feminine gender), it, they (neutral gender)
The same αύτος conjugated gives this, these for different genders. Note that if this/these is an adjective the noun must have its definite article: this student, αυτός ο μαθητής/ αυτή η μαθήτρια
Does αυτή have to agree with φιλοσοφια? It looks like φιλοσοφια is feminine because of the definite article.
Yes, demonstrative pronouns are conjugated according to the noun they describe: αυτός ο φίλος, αυτή η σοφία/ this friend, this wisdom
I answer this correctly but it keeps asking me to do it again on my Greek keyboard there is no accent is it because I can't include the accent
No, not having the accent is not a reason to ask you to do it again.
However, since we can't see what you wrote unless you make a Report we can't tell you what the problem is.
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So I'm a little confused by the word "είναι". Is that also the word used for he/she is? Like how (I think) "είμαι" is for "I am"?
Yes, "είναι" is used for "he/she/it" as well as "they".
You will see the full conjugation of this verb, plus a lot of other helpful information in the Tips¬es section. To access that click on Tips at the start of the lesson.
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