"Το κόκκινο μαλλί της είναι πολύ ιδιαίτερο."

Translation: Her red hair is very special.

[robert672165]

not sure why this in in the "medical" skill. Someone has suggested there should be a "flirting" skill....

[bonbayel]

There is for some languages, like Spanish and Italian, as well as Christmas.

[mikenning]

Is this talking about an individual hair? It's not talking about her head of hair. Or is it talking about a kind of hair?

[troll1995]

It is talking about her hair (on the head). Is the english sentence wrong?

[mizinamo]

No -- in English, "hair" can mean either one single hair or the entirety of the hair on someone's head. The English sentence is fine.

Is the Greek also OK? I thought that Greek usually uses κόκκινα μαλλιά -- το κόκκινο μαλλί της sounds to me like "its red wool" (το μαλλί ενός θυλυκού προβάτου).

[troll1995]

It is ok in Greek. A bit more colloquial than μαλλιά, but definitely right. Πως είναι το μαλλί μου;= how is my hair?, or ωραίο το καινούργιο μαλλί!=Your new hair is nice! are some sentences that are used commonly. Μαλλί is also used for wool, as you mentioned.

[mizinamo]

Thanks! I only knew the singular as meaning "wool".

(One individual hair I would have called μια τρίχα.)

[troll1995]

@Kuching3 In Greek it's κούρεμα or κόμμωση. There is no μαλλί or μαλλιά cut.

[Kuching3]

How about when you have "a hair cut" in Greek? Would you talk about having το μάλλι cut or τα μάλλια?

[deactivated user]

Is "Το κόκκινο της μαλλί είναι πολύ ιδιαίτερο. " an acceptable sentence?

[bonbayel]

I was wondering about ιδιαίτερος meaning 'special'. Could it also be particular or unusual?

[Jon345104]

I thought hair on head was τα μαλλιά and a single hair was το μαλλί so does she have a single red hair or have I misunderstood the sentence

[Dimitra956826]

A single hair is τρίχα. Hair in general can be both μαλλί (which also means wool) and μαλλιά. Both are commonly used. ^.^

[Vivliothykarios]

Elsewhere in the course, DL allowed "really" as the intensifier in a πολύ + adj. phrase. After all, something like "really cute" doesn't mean actually cute in English -- just lotsa cuteness. Can "really" for πολύ here not be rejected?

[Condorandi]

Basically in Greek you can use "το μαλλί" or τα μαλλιά to indicate hair. It's the same as in Spanish but it is more common to use the singular as a collective noun.