"Το όνομα του βιβλίου."

Translation: The name of the book.

[PeterWille6]

I would prefer "The title of the book".

[jaye16]

Thank you it's been added. We do have to retain "name" as the 'best' translation because it is closer to the Greek but "title" does sound better.

[teopap2]

"Title" is "(ο) τίτλος" in Greek.

[AttilaMoln1]

okay, but in this case what does this sentence mean? Books usually have titles, not names.

[teopap2]

It is as awkward in Greek as it is in English. Και στα ελληνικά, τα βιβλία συνήθως έχουν τίτλους, όχι ονόματα.

[AndreaMich.]

How can be translated "What is the name of the book?" ?

[mizinamo]

Ποιο είναι το όνομα του βιβλίου;

[D_..]

Ποιο είναι το όνομα του βιβλίου..;

[mizinamo]

Of course. Edited now, thanks.

[gomarinado]

If I want to ask "What is the name of that book?" (for example, that we saw earlier today, that we discussed yesterday), should I say ποιο είναι το όνομα εκείνου του βιβλίου; or ποιο είναι το όνομα του εκείνου βιβλίου; or it should be without του?

[D_..]

"ποιο είναι το όνομα εκείνου του βιβλίου" or maybe (and only in spoken Greek) "ποιο είναι το όνομα του βιβλίου εκείνου".
εκείνου cannot go between the article and the noun.

[gomarinado]

thank you.

[JuanAntoni154283]

Why not το όνομα τών βιβλίων?

[mizinamo]

Because using the genitive plural for βιβλίο indicates that you are talking about many of them: “the name of the books” rather than “the name of the book”.

[Hafizen]

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?

[mizinamo]

το όνομά του would be correct accentuation for "his name", with possessive του.

However, here, we have το όνομα του βιβλίου with definite article του -- which is pronounced in one unit with the following βιβλίου rather than with the preceding όνομα.

[Hafizen]

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.)

[mizinamo]

Did you perhaps mean the correct punctuation for “his name” in your first sentence?

Of course. Fixed -- thanks!

[Guillaume167779]

Just a comment: I responded with "The book's name" and it was graded as "you have a typo". Not exactly sure what that means, but I now know that "the name of the book" is a better (or the only?) answer.

[jaye16]

Both "The book's name." and "The name of the book." are correct and accepted translations.

We can't see any of the work done by learners unless you make a report, so we don't know what the "typo" referred to.

[Guillaume167779]

Thank you for the quick reply. I responded with these tiles: "The" "book" " 's" "name". I think there might be a minor error in the checking algorithm?

Oh, and I now see the "report" button. I'll use that in the future when it appears there is an error (this was the first time I suspected one)

[Yoryos1]

Καλησπέρα. Έγραψα, βάση των λέξεων που είχα να διαλέξω, «The book's name». Και το χαρακτήρισε τυπογραφικό λάθος, επισημαίνοντας ως σωστό «The book s name». Δε γνωρίζω αν όντως είναι έτσι (δηλαδή το s χωρίς απόστροφο) αλλά στις επιλογές δεν είχε s χωρίς απόστροφο.

[AlanS76921]

So would I be correct in translating the following "his name of the book" would be
"Το όνομά του του βιβλίου.

[troll1995]

Yes, that's correct