"Αυτός είναι ο μηχανικός ο οποίος είναι δίγλωσσος."
Translation:This is the engineer who's bilingual.
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Is the second "ο" necessary? "ο μηχανικός ο οποίος" or "ο μηχανικός οποίος"? Would it be the same for a feminine word? i.e. "η γυναίκα η οποίος"??
Yes, the second ο is necessary -- the relative pronoun ο οποίος always has a definite article in all its forms.
This also helps disambiguate cases, e.g. Αυτή είναι η γυναίκα η οποία βλέπει. "This is the woman WHO sees." versus Αυτή είναι η γυναίκα την οποία βλέπει. "This is the woman WHOM he/she sees."
The οποία is the same here but you can tell the case of the relative pronoun (nominative versus accusative) by the form of the definite article, η versus την.
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To me, the stress on δίγλωσσος sounds wrong in the audio (it sounds like the stress is on omega, e.g. διγλώσσος).
He is the mechanic that is bilingual is seen as a mistake (Αυτός must be translated as this and not as he). However I've seen several times that αυτός is translated as he. Is there any grammatical explanation for that? :-)
