"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
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Γεια does not appear between the translation options, and what it does give, it then says is a mistake. Reporting.
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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.
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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.
