"Δεν έχεις γραβάτες;"
Translation:Don't you have ties?
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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.
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.
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?
It's only inflection that makes a difference. IRL it's easy to understand. TTS programs are not accurate, that's true.
Why is " Haven't you any ties? " right but "haven't you any neckties? " wrong? They should both be right.
And in Polish we have a word "krawat" which sounds similar to "γραβάτα"
All the other times that "γραβάτες" is used, it is translated as "ties", not,"neck ties". Why was it marked incorrect?
Why was it marked incorrect?
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I thought this should read "You do not have any ties", but the fact that someone explained the semicolon is the question mark, makes me understand the syntax