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"theeta"
Translation:θ
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ι and η sound the same to me. Is there a way to know when to use one over the other?
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ι and η sound the same to me. Is there a way to know when to use one over the other?
Just memorisation, I'm afraid.
Much like English ee versus ea, the different spellings arose from when the sounds used to be pronounced differently, but now that sound changes have merged them, English school children have to learn that clean is spelled with ea and green with ee even though they are perfect rhymes for almost all native speakers -- and similarly, Greek school children have to learn that "afti" is spelled αυτί when it means "ear" but αυτή when it means "she" and αυτοί when it means "they".
If you speak Ancient Greek (where ι η υ ει οι were all pronounced differently), then that can help, but otherwise, it's mostly just memorisation.
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