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Perhaps a translation difficulty? This doesn't seem to make sense in English.
Sorry, that's not an expression I would recommend. It has innuendos.
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A bit odd in the first person but the expression "He/She really fancies her/him" is very common and in my experience simply means that they like one another.
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A bit odd in the first person but the expression "He/She really fancies her/him" is very common and in my experience simply means that they like one another.
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Jean, I thought of this thread the other day when I read "The Thirty-Nine Steps", written in 1915, which does indeed use "fancy him" to express a non-romantic admiration for someone. (The fictional Greek prime minister, as it happens...)
So the usage you have in mind was the case in the past. To avoid embarrassment though, I can tell you that in the UK now, "fancy someone" always has a sexual / romantic meaning!
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Right, but specifically in a sexual / romantic way - which I don't believe is the connotation here.
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It's not weirder than some of the other sentences on Duolingo. Useless, but perfectly valid otherwise.
It's not useless actually, you'll hear it more often than you'd probably expect in Greek, most likely accompanied with a tone of incredulousness. Also, "Το φαντάζεσαι;!" which is probably most accurately translated as "Imagine that!"
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How about "Are you imagining me?" (as in imagining that I exist).
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so I'm getting the sense that some verbs in Greek, while conjugated in the passive voice, have an active meaning in English. Is that correct?
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Yes a big group of Greek verbs are conjugated in passive but have an active voice. Some call them medio-passive verbs. The maybe most common verb to be/ είμαι belong to this group. To become is a better example because it has the ordinary endings in all persons: γίν-ομαι, γίν-εσαι, γίν-εται, γιν-όμαστε, γίν-εστε, γίν-ονται.
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Yes. Grammarians (particularly those who study both ancient and modern Greek) say Greek has "active" vs "medio-passive". "Medio" refers to the "middle voice" where one does something that primarily affects oneself. Hence a lot of English intransitive verbs line up with Greek middle voice (or "passive conjugation with active meaning") like come <-> έρχομαι, become <-> γίνομαι and so on. You can find a lot more guidance by searching "Greek middle voice".
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we have two ''με'' in greek. the first one is the one you mention, meaning with. The second one is the short accusative form of first person personal pronoun εμένα-με (me), eg he called me -> πήρε εμένα (τηλέφωνο) or με πήρε (τηλέφωνο).
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As a sentence in English it is incomplete, as others have rightly mentioned.
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Do you imagine me. Is absolutely a complete English sentence. It might sound less strange if you swap out one or both of the pronouns in the sentence, but gramatically it is absolutely a complete and normal english sentece.
