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- "Ο τυφώνας είναι μεγάλος."
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The hints are not sentence-specific, as far as I know -- so some of the hints may not apply to any given sentence.
Actually, this is probably one of the few sentences where "μεγάλος" can be translated as "strong" at all. You might want to report it next time.
Try this out. It's a short list of hints I put together years ago: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/4821654 :-) It might be dated is some areas I'll have to revamp it one of these days.
Thank you Dimitra for your explanations related to my question: Would the cyclone be acceptable? I have been doing some editing... I know typhoon is the chinese word (not japanese sorry!) tai fun for cyclone. With some influences drom Greek, arabic and portuguesethrown into the mixture. I don' t know whether Greek has different words for this nature phenomenon... As you said in your answer, it is the same phenomenon with different names. Hurricane comes from a pre hispanic Caribean word, which became huracan in Spanish. In French, we have un ouragan, un cyclone et un typhon...
Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon. Different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, 'hurricane' is used. The same type of phenomenon in the Northwest Pacific is described by 'typhoon'. In the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, the word 'cyclone' (κυκλώνας) is used instead. I added it as a translation, thank you ^.^
(To be honest, I had no idea that 'cyclone' was a term in English. :P)
κυκλώνας is a re-loan from En. cyclone from Gr. κύκλος/ circle
other synonyms to Τυφώνας 1. ανεμοστρόβιλος/ whirlwind, tornado 2. σίφουνας
