"Ανατρέφεις το παιδί σου."
Translation:You are raising your child.
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In my experience "rear" would never be used for children, only for animals, but maybe this is regional( south of England) . Unless of course you were trying to imply that the child was brought up like an animal.
While "rear" may be used for animals it is definitely for children as well.
See here Oxford
And other reliable dictionaries from US and GB.
No, that would be "σηκώνω", "ανεβάζω", "αυξάνω" and a few more. One for "raise my hand, another for raise prices, etc...." all in due time.
Good question.
I think that "raise" in this context is American, rather than UK, English. I would talk about "bringing up" children rather than "raising" or "rearing" them. Rearing implies animals, rather than children.
I agree that in middle England we would speak of bringing up children mainly ; rearing is not unheard of, raising is definitely American.
Του παιδιού means of the child/the child's.
Think of it this way: Genitive is the answer to the question of whose?
While accusative is the answer to the question of what/whom?
It is in the accusative form. Dimitra's distinction was not helpful, but she did point out that in the genitive it would have an entirely different meaning.
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As an observation , I heard ' ανα τρέχεις ' which is feed . So when more questions came up I checked in my translator and all came up with ' I, you, they etc ' feed , so is this a combination of both words giving ' raise '
Ανατρέχω means retrace or refer to. Ανατρέφω=ανά (shows repetition)+ τρέφω=feed.
Why is my answer not correct? Why is it "raising" - how could I know that?
It's not really clear what you are asking. Do you mean "why isn't it raise a child" Well, it is.
Both "raise" and "raising" are correct and accepted.
However, from the Report we see this:
You raise
upyour child
That means to physically lift up the child. However, the Greek word "ανατρέφω" means to "take care of, feed, protect, etc the child until it is an adult"
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