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"Hello, good morning!"
Translation:Γεια σας, καλημέρα!
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Γεια σου was marked wrong when the English sentence doesn't indicate if you're speaking to one person or multiple people
Γεια does not appear between the translation options, and what it does give, it then says is a mistake. Reporting.
Duo says it's spelt καλημέρα, but my phone's Greek dictionary autocorrects it to καλήμερα. Which is actually correct?
There was a distinction in Ancient Greek, but a whole bunch of sounds collapsed into "ι" many centuries ago in a phenomenon called "iotacism." "ι", "η", "υ", "ει", "οι", "ηι", "υι" are all pronounced with the same sound--"ι"--so to spell everything correctly, it's going to be a matter of memorization, unfortunately.
To be fair to Greek, though, English is also quite infamous for its inconsistent spelling and pronunciation.
Besides learning a great new word, ioticism, I found out all these sounds were easier to pronounce in modern greek than I thought. Btw, I hope Duolingo will offer ancient greek soon. That would be very helpful to me.
