"Το φθινόπωρο."
Translation:The fall.
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I forgot about diphthong. Still, this combination is quite funny to me. Maybe because here in Poland 90% of people (who sadly don't care about any phonetics at all) can't pronounce /θ/. So "thank you = fank you", "thought = fought" "thief = fief/tief" etc. I imagine how they'd pronounce all those φθινόπωρα :)
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it was a rule in ancient greek that ph always goes with th, not with t and similarly for ch and th. The sounds were pronounced differently (closer to the main sound followed by an h) so it made sense in that context
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Is this word a combination of 2 words? (I always hope I can find a smart solution to memorize these odd words...! :"P )
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I can hear the word but every time I say it it doesn't sound like I want it to - I can say either the first bit OR the last... mmm