"Ο Ιούλιος είναι ο μήνας μου."
Translation:July is my month.
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Does this mean birthday month or something? Or just nonsense to help us learn?
Could mean my favorite month/the month that suits me (concerning weather, holidays etc) best.
Because you can't use a definite article with months of the year in English. :P
The green owl always knows. If July is your month, he will know. If your dog drinks beer, he will know. ;D
It's correct except for "του γιούς μου". The genitive case is "του γιου" and no accent mark is needed because it is an one-syllable word. (don't be confused by the fact that there are two vowels, the word is pronounced as /ʝɔs/.) So, Ο Ιούλιος είναι ο μήνας του γιου μου. ;)
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What you meant (and later troll1995) answered is: "July is the month of my son", isn't it?
Why isn't the genitive μήνα being used in this case? Is there some kind of exception for months of the year?
Μήνας here acts as a predicate. The same way that we say Είμαι άντρας and not είμαι άντρα, we say Ο Ιούλιος είναι μήνας -> Ο Ιούλιος είναι ο μήνας μου. There is no reason for it to be in genitive.
Thanks so much for the response! This makes perfect sense.
For some reason, I got confused and thought that all possessives were formed using the genitive, but now I see that the genitive is only used for constructions meaning "of the possessor" or "the possessor's noun".
In the case of the "my/your/his/her" construction, it seems that the pronoun is already in the genitive (i.e. μου is a genitive declension of εγώ etc.). Is this correct?
In the case of the "my/your/his/her" construction, it seems that the pronoun is already in the genitive (i.e. μου is a genitive declension of εγώ etc.). Is this correct?
That is indeed correct.
