"Το όνομα του βιβλίου."
Translation:The name of the book.
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what's the difference between το όνομά and το όνομα ?
The basic word is όνομα.
Greek words can be accented on the final syllable (ultimate), next-to-last syllable (penult), or third from the end (antepenult), but not any further back from that.
Some unstressed words are written separately, but are pronounced together with the previous word (they are clitics) and thus form one spoken word together with them. In modern Greek, this group only includes the possessives μου, σου, του, της, μας, σας, τους after nouns and the short-form pronouns με, μου, σε, σου, τον, του, την, της, το, μας, σας, τους after command forms of verbs.
If you have a word stressed on the third syllable from the end and you add one of those unstressed clitics, then you have a spoken word that would be stressed on the fourth syllable from the end, which is too far back. In such case, you have to add another stress two syllables later.
Thus:
- η αδελφή - η αδελφή μου (stressed on the last syllable when alone, on the second-to-last when you add a possessive)
- ο πατέρας - ο πατέρας μου (stressed on the second-to-last syllable when alone, on the third-to-last when you add a possessive)
- το όνομα -
το όνομα μου- το όνομά μου (stressed on the third-to-last syllable when alone; stress on the fourth-to-last when adding a possessive is not possible, so you add another stress on the new second-to-last syllable)
το όνομά can never stand alone; the second accent is only added when necessary to avoid the main accent falling on the fourth syllable from the end, i.e. when an unstressed clitic is added.
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Το όνομα του βιβλίου. I thought that όνομά was the correct punctuation when genitive pronouns follow it. What’s the rule for this, if any?
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Did you perhaps mean the correct punctuation for “his name” in your first sentence? Thanks!
Edit: Thanks for the prompt reply!
It’s interesting to see how the meaning of του changes depending on whose name we’re speaking of. O_o.
PS/ I’m not sure but I think you gave me 2 lingots! Whoa! That’s so very kind, thank you! (First time ever.)