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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?
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
can i use αυτό or αυτός instead of αυτή? what's the difference between these three when you want to write 'this is'?
The gender of the subject and predicate must be same. Here the feminine predicate η φιλοσοφία demands a feminine subject
I thought Αυτή meant she but appearently it also means this?? I dont understand.
Αυτή is she or a demonstrative pronoun this/ that which refers to a noun with feminine gender
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Why is it not Afti (ita) ine phislosophia? Why is the order Afti ine (ita) philosophia?? Sorry, greek keyboard doesnt work T_T
Have y ou read the comments on this page showing how to get the Greek keyboard.
So what you are asking is:
Why is it What you have written above is very hard to understand.
Afti (ita) ine phislosophia? is this what you are trying to write? Αυτή (η) είναι φιλοσοφία
Afti ine (ita) philosophia Αυτή είναι (η) φιλοσοφία. ?
The "η" is the word for "the" and must go before the noun 'φιλοσοφία".
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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".
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An earlier comment says that without the definite article, philosophy would turn into sophistry. Why? I thought it would just become a philosophy.
"sophistry" means that your argument or reasoning is wrong. Check it in a dictionary.
You have misunderstood the meaning of the sentence. He is not saying that the word changes but that you need to use a different word if you leave off the article.
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So you're saying that I need to use a different word to make it, "It is a philosophy" instead of, "It is a sophistry"?
I'm saying that the word "sophistry" was just the opinion of TheoMatrakas concerning the way some people think.
IT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS A DEFINITION OF THE WORDS USED IN THIS EXERCISE.
AS I STATED ABOVE YOU HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD the comment by TheoMatrakas.
The comment by TheoMatrakas has been removed by Duolingo to avoid confusion.
There are a few comments on this page giving links for how to learn the Greek alphabet. Check them out and you will see that the two letters: α + υ is pronounced as one sound...'av' or sometimes 'af'.
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