"Ρωτάμε την γυναίκα για ένα βιβλίο."

[gpbalis]

Shouldn't you also except: "we are asking the woman for a book"

[mizinamo]

That would be Ζητάμε από τη γυναίκα ένα βιβλίο, I think.

Like many languages, Greek doesn't mix ask "pose a question (for information)" and ask "request", as far as I know.

[l_LOVE_CHlCKENS]

Accept ***

[GenevieveLaurin]

So the hints say "a" and "the" for την. Why is "the woman" the only accepted version?

[mizinamo]

The hints are only weakly sentence-specific; the list often includes meanings that are not relevant to the current sentence but only to other sentences containing that word.

Sometimes, Greek uses the definite article (such as την) where English would use an indefinite article (such as "a"), especially with abstract nouns.

But this is not such a situation, and "a woman" is not an appropriate translation in this sentence.