"Ο καθηγητής μας μίλησε για τον παγανισμό."
Translation:Our teacher spoke about paganism.
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I am wondering, surely you need a second "μας" for the above translation to be correct " ο καθηγητής μας μας μίλησε για τον παγανισμό".?
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Yes, a second "μας" is needed here. Other possible translations are:
- Ο καθηγητής μας μίλησε σε μας για τον παγανισμό.
- Ο καθηγητής μας μίλησε για τον παγανισμό σε μας.
I hope that this helps. :-)
Should σε μας not be σ' εμάς?
As far as I know, the forms are σ' εμένα, σ' εσένα, σ' αυτόν/αυτήν/αυτό, σ' εμάς, σ' εσάς, σ' αυτούς/αυτές/αυτά -- and not σε μένα, σε σένα, σε μας, σε σας.
You don't have to convert the phrase to its shorter form with the apostrophe. It's a verbal form, thus informal, and you wouldn't write it down in any (semi)-formal setting.
I don't understand. Σε μας isn't shorter or longer but simply seems wrong to me, since μας is the short (unstressed) form which doesn't occur after prepositions, does it?
Sorry, I completely missed the point of your post and answered a different question!
I don't think it's clear which vowel is lost since there are strong and weak forms of pronouns, plus "Οι τύποι της αιτιατικής του ενικού του πρώτου και δεύτερου προσώπου εμένα και εσένα μετά τις προθέσεις από και για χάνουν συνήθως το αρχικό φωνήεν ε-, π.χ. Από μένα για σένα, αντί Από εμένα για εσένα." source
"our professor talked about paganism" is currently marked as incorrect, general strengthening on web.
"our professor talked about paganism" is still marked as incorrect, general strengthening on web.
The correct pronunciation is Ο καθηγητής μας, μίλησε για τον παγανισμό. It needs a point song
The sentence is correct. There is no confusion because "the teacher spoke to us about paganism" would be ο καθηγητής μάς μίλησε για τον παγανισμό.
