"Σταμάτα να τρως."

Translation: Stop eating.

[carmina_banana]

Maybe because my first language is Spanish and not English (or maybe because I'm "corrupted" after studying Ancient Greek and I remembered ἵνα), I translated it as stop to eat (literally) but I understood it as stop for eating. But να is the construction for the infinitive, yes. How would it be stop for eating?

[D_..]

It would be Σταμάτα (για) να φας.

[teopap2]

To add to this, the ancient ἵνα is για να nowadays.

[Stergi3]

Να, yes, it comes from the Ancient ἵνα. After να Modern Greek use subjunctive. Να τρως is present subjunctive , να φας is aorist (past) subjunctive. For the verb τρώω or τρώγω, that is irregular in tenses, take a look at http://www.lexigram.gr/lex/newg/%CF%84%CF%81%CF%8E%CF%89#Hist5 for all the tenses available.

[pluureng]

But I can't. :(