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- "Τους τρώω."
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Not necessarily.
Could be a masculine noun such as τους κουραμπιέδες (a kind of baked item often eaten around Christmas).
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"κουραμπιέδες" reminded me of the turkish word "kurabiye" (a sort of biscuit) and indeed it seems to be of turkish/arabic origine.
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I was thinking more Lord of The Rings than the Odyssey. But πολύφημος works as well for this lol.
No; these short forms such as με σε τον τους etc. are only used before a verb, or right after an imperative (command) form.
If you want to put the pronoun after the verb, you'll need the full form: Τρώω αυτούς.
Well, you can if you're speaking Greek in Cyprus (a fact usually ignored); but anyway this course is about Standard Greek so you should concentrate on that.
For a second my brain didn't work and I thought this one was about cannibalism
I wrote τουσ τρώω and was told it was wrong. Is it just because my sigma doesn't change form when its at the end of a word? I don't know how to get it to do that.
Indication of the pronouns:
Is it not possible only eat them?
No.
In English, you cannot leave out the subject pronoun -- the verb ending does not indicate the subject, unlike in Greek.
Wait, doesn't this mean I EAT FOR THEM or TO THEM? And if I wanted to say I EAT THEM, wouldn't i need to say τρώω αυτούς? I'm kind of confused...
doesn't this mean I EAT FOR THEM or TO THEM?
No, it doesn't.
τους can be either genitive or accusative; it's accusative here (since τρώω takes a direct object but no indirect object).
And if I wanted to say I EAT THEM, wouldn't i need to say τρώω αυτούς?
No, you don't have to. τους τρώω would be more common.
It can be used to say for example: -Are you going to eat the sandwiches? - τούς τρωω
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