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Has αγαπη always been this versatile? I thought that it was used much more conservatively?
Well, if I understand what you mean, αγάπη is used for expressing love for persons, hobbies, interests, ideals etc. when it is used for things, it gives an extravagant tone in your speech. So saying αυτός αγαπά το χρήμα=He loves money, is like implying that for him money is an ideal, that he is so much stuck on it.
Is the word ζυμαρικά generally used in plural?
Yes, it means (all types of) pasta. You may hear it in its singular form, but most probably not, e.g. Δε μου αρέσει αυτό το ζυμαρικό - I don't like this type of pasta.
Love is not write to say about food, it is only for peaple. Food is possible to like.
True, that's because we don't usually match the exact letters in loanwords, we rather try to represent the original pronunciation of the word using the Greek alphabet. That's why we say νουντλς and not νούντλες. So, yes, that's how those clusters are formed xD
Since you are also studying Spanish and advanced with Greek, don't you think that it's like Spanish insofar as the definite article is present when English can omit it? In Spanish and Greek it can mean "the pasta" or "pasta" whereas in English we omit the article when we want to refer to all pasta.
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There's no sound on this multiple choice. We have only seen and heard the word once at this stage and it was not in this "person" ... and their were no "mouse-over" clues.
