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In a previous exercise I was told giving "cap" as the translation for σκούφος was insufficient and that it needed to be "skullcap" or "winter cap" and that the only proper translation for "cap" was καπέλι but here duo's requiring me to translate σκούφος as "cap"!
This is ridiculous, how am I meant to learn when one exercise forces me to do something another says is wrong?
This needs to either specify skullcap or switch to καπέλι assuming the moderator was correct in the other thread; otherwise, someone needs to clarify in that thread and change the answer there
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I just found this happened to me too, in the same exercise, just a couple of sentences apart. Frustrating
This exercise hasn't been fun for us either. There's always a more effective way of learning a new word instead of getting frustrated, Stergi3 has posted a link to Google Images below. This discussion has now been locked.
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It is the same. About σκούφος here a photo https://www.google.gr/search?q=%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82&client=tablet-android-lenovo&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7vdu_94DUAhUKlxQKHTMOD9cQ_AUICSgB&biw=800&bih=1280# Hope you can see the photo
On second thought, I would call them stocking caps, but never simply caps.
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In the previous sentence I wrote "σκούφος", as I learned from Tips and Notes, but Duo corrected me "σκούφους". This time I wrote "σκούφους" and Duo corrected me "σκούφος"!
σκούφος is singular, σκούφους is plural.
It really depends on what the exercise asks for. There is a sentence for example that uses the plural:
I have the winter caps./Εγώ έχω τους σκούφους. :)
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what does skoufos refer to? a skull cap like the one catholic priests and jews wear? or a beanie?
Haven't a clue but another sentence gave the translation as " winter cap". That seems closer to your beanie.
I haven't seen "winter cap", but I have seen just "cap". So far no "beanie". And despite the pop-up that says "skull cap", that answer is rejected here.
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"the scarf and the hat" was rejected as a (review) tiles answer. Stergi's link to images definitely shows what I (as a New Englander) would call a hat and not a cap. No adjectives were available as options (nor do I think winter is actually necessary) and cap for me would always be short for baseball cap before anything winter related.
It's 'The'. 'The' is triple gendered in Greek. ο (masc.), η (fem.), το (neut.). ^.^
In Greek there are 3 articles "ο, η, το" and they both have meaning "the" in English. When the thing is masculine, you have to use "ο" for "the" . When the thing is feminine, you have to use "η" for "the" . When the thing is neutral, you have to use "το" for "the".
In the hint it says that it should be skull cap or winter cap, but if you use just cap as an answer it considers being right. This might be a problem.
I do not understand what does "σκούφους" mean. Also what are "σκούφος" and "σκουφί" mean? What is the difference between them?
Σκούφος and σκουφί have no difference. Σκουφί (neuter) is just an alternative form of σκούφος (masculine). Σκούφος is a usually knit winter cap. ^.^
I had never heard the term 'winter cap' before coming across it here as a translation for σκούφος. We call them hats or woolly hats.
Hm, I do think that hood is used for something that is attached to a jacket, a coat, or another kind of clothing, right? That would be κουκούλα in Greek. ^.^
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I too was confused here, not knowing what a beanie was. But for British speakers (and no one above has commented on this so far), I'm guessing from the photos in the first link, that a beanie is a 'WOOLIE HAT'.
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I'm not a native speaker of English, but to me this garment "σκούφος" has always been a woolly hat. Is it a widely used term?
There is the better translation, "winter cap" in the reverse exercise.
