"Δεν έχεις γραβάτες;"

Translation: Don't you have ties?

[Snommelp]

The semicolon at the end really threw me off, and I translated it as a statement (you don't have neckties) instead of a question.

[ApostolosB4]

Yeah in Greece we use ";" instead of "?"

[DanielJReynolds]

Now I get it!

[Chuck502519]

Other than punctuation (which doesn't exist in a "what you hear" exercise) and inflection (which is unreliable in machine-generated speech), is there a difference between the question and the statement?

[troll1995]

It's only inflection that makes a difference. IRL it's easy to understand. TTS programs are not accurate, that's true.

[konosp]

What do you mean by inflection?

[Rk5I3]

It's nice that a tie is KPABAT (kravat) in Russian and kravatti in Finnish. :D

[AniOhevYayin]

Yes, the Cyrillic script derives from monks of the Byzantine empire and so the roots of the Russian alphabet are in Greek and from there Russian will inevitably have connections to Greek words at times.

[ivb74]

A tie in Russian is ГАЛСТУК (galstuk). КРОВАТЬ (pronounced as kravat) is a bed

[Teo-C]

In romanian is cravata

[LaBasseCollette]

Why is " Haven't you any ties? " right but "haven't you any neckties? " wrong? They should both be right.

[Constanza99442]

looks shocked

[david992632]

Where the any comes from?

[Elena928951]

All the other times that "γραβάτες" is used, it is translated as "ties", not,"neck ties". Why was it marked incorrect?