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1764
η without accent is the article
ή with the accent is the disjunctive one... this translates as "or".
Examples
Η Μαρία και η Μαργαρίτα. = Mary and Margaret.
Η Μαρία ή η Μαργαρίτα; = Mary or Margaret?
- 1764
As you published this in "theeta" discussion, please make sure that you don't confuse "eeta" (η) with "theeta" (θ).
- 1764
Now theta is also accepted. This is the Erasmian system that wants to attribute the classic Attic phonetical system.
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This random acceptance/non-acceptance of letter or word form is really annoying. I hope once I'm out of the spelling skill and into grammar and vocabulary this won't be an issue.
Will the Duolingo team ever make a course for classical Greek? I'd love to learn the old classic pronunciation and grammar
- 1764
I don't think they will ever do. Pronunciation would probably be the same as modern Greek considering that no valid ancient pronunciation arrived in our days (i.e. no recordings are available). Phonetic studies and books are also available in the last 300 years so in my opinion shouldn't be considered valid for a language continuously spoken and evolved 2000+ years before. About the grammar there are many books that you can find and study.
I heard theeta, however I wrote the letter theeta instead. How come it was still maked as incorrect?
CA/US keyboard, type: thita
Greek keyboard, type: u;hta
(θήτα or θ is a Greek letter)
I must admit, it seems like the letters were renamed with a lot of double e's. Theta=Theeta=Θ=Θήτα
Tengo una pregunta, el "theeta" debe ser "theta" de verdad? Siempre había pensado que era "theta".
Tú habías pensado que era zeta, no theta, ya que estás tratando de traducir tus clases de griego al inglés donde zeta ζ se pronuncia theeta aunque la pronunciación real en griego se acerca más a la pronunciación española. Pd. Soy mexicano, pero lo comprendí perfectamente.
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Could somebody please translate that answer into English? If I see it correctly I do have the same question but don't understand the answer because of my poor Spanish
- 132
I've reported this on a number of listening exercises with in this section. It's only accepting "θήτα", not "θ", even though there's no way to tell the difference on a listening exercise
How to change the english keyboard to the greek keyboard ? Help me please !!! I need help !!! Help , help , help !!!
Thank you so much !! Here are the lingots , I want to give lingots to the person help me on Duo.
- 1764
Just click on the appropriate link right next to the Reply link. You just clicked on the Reply link now.
The audio was not correct for it and I am sorry if I was not being specific.
Thank you for clarifying. In the future you can report audio issues through the REPORT button as soon as you encounter them. Unfortunately the ABC unit audio is problematic so I suggest complementing your learning with other resources (which will help throughout the course in any case). Forvo.com is good for audio in general and you can also check out the resources posts in the Greek forum https://forum.duolingo.com/topic/936. Just learn the alphabet and get out of the first unit, the rest of the course is much more fun! Happy learning!
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Sometimes the single letter works, sometimes not. If I always type the full word I'm marked wrong sometimes, if just the letter also wrong sometimes. Very not cool.
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You don't. 2 years ago when I stated duolingo this worked perfectly and either the letter or full spelling worked fine.
At some point the devs figured out how to break previously working functionality and it's been this way for 6 months now .
