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"Between them"
Translation:Ανάμεσα τους
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Here is an explanation on μεταξύ vs. ανάμεσα. According to Filippos Petroulakis from Facebook Group Duolingo Greek Learners,
"αναμεσα is more physical, like "no one can come ανάμεσά μας", while μεταξυ is akin to "between you and me, Trump sucks"." "Of course στο μεταξύ means "in the meantime", which is completely different."
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We saw somewhere in the course: "ανάμεσα σε". When do we have to use it with "σε"? Would it refer to this physical and non-physical context mention by @ShaoxuanLi above?
You use σε when you state the objects in full instead of replacing them with pronouns:
Ανάμεσα σε δύο σπίτια
Ανάμεσα στα δέντρα
Ανάμεσα σε ένα σπίτι και ένα δέντρο
Ανάμεσα σε άδρες/γυναίκες/παιδιά
Ανάμεσα στα βιβλία μου
All these would be replaced by ανάμεσά τους if you wanted to use the pronoun.
The option that I was corrected to was ανάμεσά τους. Can you please explain when to use the double accent, and why both options appear to be correct here. Thank you
Let's put it this way:
- άναμεσά τους is accepted here because it's correct
- άναμεσα τους is accepted here because that was initially the only form in the course (for technical reasons which I can explain if you want) and can't be removed at the moment
The only correct form is ανάμεσά τους with two accents, because τους is unstressed and pronounced together with the previous word, and the "word" ανάμεσα τους would then have the accent too far back from the end.
So both forms are accepted in the Duolingo course for now but only one of them is correct.
It's one of the things we hope to do better in the second version of the tree.
That is not "the" correct solution (in the sense that there is exactly one solution and that is it), but that's one one translation that is currently accepted as correct.
I'm not sure whether it should be, since I think μεταξύ takes genitive pronouns, not accusative ones.
τες is the feminine accusative short-form pronoun used after a verb (e.g. an imperative) or a preposition that takes the accusative.
Yes; the short-form genitive pronoun for third person plural is τους -- like the possessive (e.g. το βιβλίο τους "their book"), so also μεταξύ τους, μαζί τους, δίπλα τους etc.
The second accent issue has been discussed throughout the course, in this very discussion, too (read mizinamo's comment above). It's something we've been taking care of for the second tree.
Why is it ανάμεσα τους
Personal pronouns combine directly with such adverbs; nouns need σε.
Personal pronouns combine directly with such adverbs
their weak forms at least, as opposed to ανάμεσα σε αυτούς for example. :)
