"Αυτός σταμάτησε να παίζει."

[nphx2]

How would one go about saying "He stopped to play" then?

[jaye16]

:-)) The same. How do we know the difference? Only by the context of the sentence.

[William80638]

Then why can't i say «Αυτός σταμάτησε παιζεί»?

[jaye16]

That would mean: "He stop he play." The να is there for a reason.

[Hitoritana]

If you mean "he stopped (what he was doing) in order to play", then it would be "Αυτός σταματησε για να παιξει"

[Ioanninna]

I struggle with 'Να', it has so many uses. I get that one of it's jobs is to seperate verbs, but is there a clarification for this anywhere?

[troll1995]

Yep. take a look here. :)

[Ioanninna]

Brilliant. Thanks.