"Το δείπνο είναι ψάρι και σούπα."
Translation:The dinner is fish and soup.
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In fact it is an accepted translation and yes, δείπνο is a bit more formal.
"There are tomatoes in my salad" was accepted for "H σαλάτα μου έχει τομάτα", but they don't accept "There is fish and soup for dinner" for this. Why? Isn't it the same thing?
yes, it is fine and will be included. Sorry, for the slip up and thanks for catching it.
"Dinner is fish and soup" is WAY more natural for me than "THE dinner is fish and soup" (GB native speaker)
Not when i typed it it wasn't! I got a message to the effect that "You must use the article…".
Not that I'm complaining - I think it's great that some generous people have put this all together for us! But since we're invited to suggest improvements…
It was not accepted because it was added after we saw your post. ;) Thanks for the input! It makes the course better.. ;D
But it does sound ok. If you think it sounds wrong on your phone/browser, you can submit a report here.
I wrote "meal" for δείπνο rather than "dinner." Is that really a mistake?
A meal (γεύμα) can be eaten at any time of the day, whereas a dinner refers to meals eaten in the evening/at night.
Also, in English dinner can be used for the main meal of the day. In the US for example it's usual to have a small lunch in the afternoon and dinner in the evening whereas, in Greece dinner might be in the afternoon and then we would have something small in the evening, that would be called supper.
I'm a 63 year old British, native English speaking student. I've just been marked wrong for writing 'supper' instead of 'dinner'. I think this should be an acceptable alternative answer.
Dinner describes the main meal of the day whether it be afternoon or evening.
See here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinner
and here:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dinner
"Supper" is specifically the evening meal which in Greek iis το βραδινό".
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