"You have the cheesecake."
Translation:Εσείς έχετε το τσίζκεικ.
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why you have the cheesecake cannot be translated into εσυ εχεις το τσίζκεικ???
How are we meant to know from the English form that they are talking plurality in 'you'?
You / We are not expected to know which is meant. For this sentence, you could translate it as either singular or plural. Both are included in the correct translations in the incubator.
How are we to know that it is the plural "you" that is required here? Gino35599 didn't get an answer to this 2 years ago and the discussion is all about the spelling of cheesecake not about the auxiliary verb...please help!
Since there is no difference in the English singular and plural "you" we always include both in Greek (unless there is context to indicate otherwise).
The conjugation of the helping verbs "to be" "είμαι" and "to have" "έχω" with translations are shown in the Tips & Notes for the Basic 1 skill.
In the Tips & notes for this skill you will again find there are full conjugations for the verbs:.
"to be" "είμαι" and "to have" "έχω"
In various tenses with translations.
In the incubator, which lists the accepted translations, we have
"Εσύ έχεις το τσίζκεϊκ." Εσύ έχεις το τσίζκεικ." singular, using the personal pronousn.
"Έχεις το τσίζκεϊκ." "Έχεις το τσίζκεικ." singular, without the personal pronoun.
"Εσείς έχετε το τσίζκεικ." ¨Εσείς έχετε το τσίζκεϊκ." plural with the personal pronoun
"Έχετε] το τσίζκεικ." "Έχετε το τσίζκεϊκ." Plural without the personal pronoun.
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Shouldn't this be written as τσίζκεϊκ? Otherwise you will read it "tsizkik". I saw another option is τσιζ κέικ (in which case it is fine, as the accent is on ε).
This word has a long history on Duo and after a great deal of conversation and ,research there was no consensus. As you say yourself you found other spelling. What we have here seems to be thte most widely used. Actually, it would sound like: tsiz- ke- ik. I
I am sure you have written this somewhere ... but I can't find it ... how do I write the ϊ on the keyboard? I know you have to use the : key to get the normal accent, but don't know the one for the ϊ ?
On the Gr keyboard press Shift and ; at the same time, then the vowel you want to accent. It worked for me on pc, chrome.
τσίζκεϊκ
Btw a little secret; nowadays the diacritics are often neglected by Greeks so don't be surprised if you see "τσίζκέικ" instead of τσιζέϊκ in the window of a pastry shop.
The accents, on the other hand, are of course very important to the language and incorrect accents could change the meaning of some words.
in my view εσύ έχεις το τσίζσκεικ is also correct and should not be rejected
If you read the other comments on this page you will see we accept "*εσύ έχεις το τσίζκεικ". You have a spelling mistake in "τσίζκεικ" which might be the reason your sentence was rejected.
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I beg your pardon, but unfortunately I still have not understood it: "You have the cheesecake" - this can really be meant in the plural or in the singular. So "Εσύ έχεις το τίζεισκεικ" does not seem wrong to me.
You seem to have extra letters in "τσίζκεικ" maybe that is why it was marked as wrong? or was that a typo while you were writing the comment?
Correct translations for this sentence are:
Εσύ έχεις or Eσείς έχετε or Έχεις or Έχετε το τσίζκεικ."
So, if your sentence was rejected it was for another reason.
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Is it only me or anyone else is also irritated with the new voicing? It sounds so mechanic and robotic.
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