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- "They drink the juice."
"They drink the juice."
Translation:Αυτοί πίνουν τον χυμό.
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Why can't I use αυτά? There is no reference to which gender is drinking the juice
Why we use "τον" and not "το" in this case? Is it because of the plural of persons?
It's because χυμός is masculine.
According to the current rules, the masculine accusative article is always τον with a final nu.
(When I learned Greek, the rules were different and it would have been το in this sentence; the rules then took into account the first sound of the following word in deciding whether to use το or τον.)
Well, actually what i see is that correct answer here is this: Αυτοί πίνουν το χυμό.
I appreciate the clarification that the final nu is the current rule and that you grew up with it being dropped. To drop or not to drop? I've read elsewhere that the rule was adopted (I'm not sure when or what body made the rule) to help avoid confusion with neuter nouns but that the people routinely drop the nu, on the one hand, and that formal Gk will keep the nu no matter what letter follows.
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Αυτή is more correct I believe (checked with my greek mum) but it's labelled as a typo by this question.
αυτή means "she"
αυτοί means "they"
The two sound identical.
But given the verb πίνουν which has the "they" form, only αυτοί can be correct.
