"My pink hat."
Translation:Το ροζ καπέλο μου.
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It may seem redundant to you, but not to a Greek :)
I see that you are level 25 in Italian; you should be used to this "article + possessive" construction from there as well (il mio cappello rosa).
Similarly, Greek uses a seemingly-redundant definite article with determiners, e.g. αυτό το σπίτι for "this house" -- literally, "this the house". But that's normal for Greeks (or, say, Hungarians).
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Arabic also has the same construction. To say 'this house' one needs to literally say 'this the house' (hadha al-bait). If you take out the 'the' ('al' in this example) it means 'this is a house' (hadha bait). Interesting.
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Looks as though I can't divorce Romance language sentence construction from Greek ENTIRELY.
It's a coincidence, I'm sure -- Latin doesn't have the definite article at all, and I don't think French or Spanish have this construction. (I think Catalan might, though.)
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Spanish used to have such a construction but it fell out of use centuries ago, you can find it in very old books like El Cantar de Mío Cid, however when you want to stress possession you can say "el sombrero mío" (such constructions are seldom used though). Catalan went the opposite way around and now uses the Italian-style construction almost exclusively.
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Although it is accepted, το ροζ μου καπέλο is not the translation given in the topic. My understanding of possessive pronouns was that they should always come before the noun if there is an adjective. Is this not always the case?
