"Αυτός γράφει αρκετά."
Translation:He writes quite a lot.
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2007
αρκετά sounds like having exactly the same meaning of French "assez", Spanish "bastante" and Italian "abbastanza". Am I wrong?
I answer this exercise correctly. It was a type what you hear exercise.
I was wondering though could this also be translated as "he writes enough"?
I have usually used αρκετά to mean enough as often as I've used to mean a lot.
"enough" is a problematic word for GR/EN teaching. While it is often translated as "a lot, much very, much etc" it's better to think of it as as much as is needed. E.g. "We had a lot of food for the party but it wasn't enough." I've seen so many essays/compositons go astray that I began to insist on "as much as is needed" as the first meaning and then of course "a lot etc". (Old school marm you know. :-)))
In this sentence, even without context, I'd lean towards a lot just to be safe.
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/enough_1
used for saying that an amount is as much as you need, or that a number of people or things are as many as you need
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/enough
Enough is a determiner, a pronoun or an adverb. We use enough to mean ‘as much as we need or want’.
If you read my comment above about the use of "enough" you will see why it is not the best translation for "αρκετά".
How would you write "he writes enough"? Cause if it's "αυτός γράφει αρκετά" then I should have got this right.
Because we didn't have it as an answer. It has been added now. Thank you.
Unfortunately, I chose the nearly identical "he writes quite a bit," and got the ol' red screen of death.
For αυτός γράφει αρκετά the English translation provided is "he writes a lot." It left me wondering whether πολλά could be interchangeable. I checked the comments before posting this, so I hope it's not redundant or obvious. Ευχαριστώ. PS: another post mentions that the two are distinct: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26371911
You wouldn't use πολλά which would modify a noun. Here you use πολύ which is acting on Γράφει, so it should take an adverbial form.
In this sentence, I heard "γράφει" very distinctly and got the answer right.
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I typed ´he writes enough´. It was marked wrong; but the ´correct´ answer was given as ´he´s writing enough´. Something wrong surely - ? ´γράφει' means both ´writes´ and ´is writing´ ...
This seems to be a technical error. Of course, "writes" and "is writing" are accepted since Greek does not distinguish between Simple present and present continuous.
For information: In the tips of "Adverbs" αρκετά is translated as "enough". Maybe to be completed with "a lot".