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- "Περισσότερο κοινό."
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1812
Doesn't this mean more spectators, a larger audience? "More public" sounds like an adjective. "Their conversation was more public than ours."
It is a bit of all you said. I've just added more common. "Public" here without context can be as you say an adjective or a noun as the other words in the hints. Thank you for your observation.
- 1812
Thanks for clearing that up. I know it as an adjective for the Hellenistic variety of common Greek, but I would never have guessed this noun meaning.
Glad to be able to help. It's interesting to see how words change over time.
Thanks for adding common as I have always used κοινο as meaning common.
είναι κάτι κοινό :-D
- 1549
I think "public" should not be used as a noun when preceded by "more". "More public" has a meaning similar to "less private" - it's an adverb/adjective pair. I would not understand "more public" to mean "more common people" or "more of the public" as i think this Greek phrase is trying to say
Yes, you have a good point. I think we'd do well to give the Greek sentence more context so as to have a better translation. We can't do that at present but we'll keep it in mind for the new tree. Thank you.
- 604
Does the word "Koine" as in "Koine Greek" have the same origin as that of the word Κοινό?
Yes, it is κοινός, κοινή, κοινό and it means common. Wiktionary is usually good for this kind of etymological questions :) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Koine
Well, the word being taught here is "περισσότερο" = "more" which references "amounts" and the usual way to measure amounts is with numbers.
"more audience" was marked wrong, even though it was mentioned in the hints.
Ok, there are two issues. First, the fact that the hints contain the word "audience" doesn't mean that it's correct here. Like a dictionary which may show many words as definitions but not all are suitable for each sentence...so always choose the first word that's how Duolingo is set up.
Second, you could use "audience" but you would have to say "larger" or "bigger".
The word "audience" is uncountable. We can say "He sang to the audience." or "The audience applauded." but you cannot say how "much" or "how little" the audience was.
The top hint is "more public".
The word "audience" is three rows down. This is how the Drop Down hints work.
Many translations may be given ... but not each one is possible for each sentence...just like any dictionary.
But Duo makes it easy for you by always putting the best translation at the top.
So, just use the top translations and you can be sure of always being right.
