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This is a very awkward sentence in English. No one who is a native speaker would ever say, "you wish good morning."
100% agree. I went for wish you good morning which is slightly less awkward but it didn't accept it.
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Yeah agreed. Either you wish (someone) good morning or you wish (that it is it will be) a good morning. Doesn't work if there is nothing to wish to or for.
In my part of the world, "he wishes me good morning" would be just as often used as "he says good morning to me".
Sure, but to say "He wishes good morning" as a complete sentence, without mentioning to whom, sounds very strange. "He says good morning" however is fine.
That would be literal, yes, but I think that "He said good morning to me" is more common in English than "He wished me a good morning".
Yes, "i wish you good morning" is a common sentence, i don't understand why it has been removed and changed by the "say" verb. I use this app to learn Greek to be able to talk to people in Greece and so far this is more disturbing than anything else.
It takes a lot of time to learn unuseful and complicated words while we don't have thr knowledge to say simple things like "hello how are you".
Confusion should not be accepted in this. "Wish" means something, "say" an other thing and I want to be able to make a distinction between the two without having to think back 10 times.
The important thing is that the English sentence with "wish" isn't correct without an indirect object. "I wish you/him/her/them good morning" is fine, but "I wish good morning" by itself is wrong to all native speakers' ears. The Greek sentence doesn't have an indirect object, so we're left with "I say good morning" as the closest we can get in English to convey that.
"Wish" doesn't always mean something different from "say." How do you know if someone is "wishing" you a good morning unless they say "Good morning!" to you?
In any case, "You wish good morning." is a very strange sentence which I can't make complete sense of as a native English speaker, presumably translating idiomatic Greek (is this the case?). A recipient of the wish is expected in the sentence. Does "Εύχεστε καλημέρα." mean, "You are wishing someone good morning." (with an indefinite object) or "You are wanting a good morning." (wishing for yourself) or "You are saying 'g'day.'" (with speech implied)?
Google Translate provides: Εύχεστε καλημέρα. --> Wish you had a good day. Εύχεστε καλημέρα. --> You wish you good morning. Εύχεστε καλημέρα! --> Wish you good morning! Εύχεστε καλημέρα! --> Happy Day!
Google's robots seem to be suggesting the sentence implies a second-person plural object (perhaps reflexively from this middle-voice verb?) but I'd rather hear from a real Greek.
Two real Greeks tell me that the translation should be: "We wish you good morning." They tell me it means the same as "Εύχομαστε καλημέρα" and is unusual and formal, and could be used addressing one or more persons.
No, no second person plural object is implied, the only object is "καλημέρα" ;)
Thanks for your response. I've made a few mistakes there, haven't I? Perhaps a second-person 'addressee' who is the 'recipient of the wish'?
Sorry for the late response. I don't see any reason for confusion in your examples, however awkward the English might be:
We wish you good morning.= (Εμείς) σας/σου ευχόμαστε καλημέρα. (Addressee=you)
You wish good morning.=(Εσείς) εύχεστε/(Εσύ) εύχεσαι καλημέρα. (No addressee)
I don't know what these Greeks had in mind, but I don't see why they would make such a suggestion.
I think it would be better not to add any new translations for this sentence, since it's already quite awkward as it is without an object, so I'm not sure as to whether there's any point in doing that.
Sure, it would... Or the point is that our team has mentioned several times that sentences cannot be removed once a tree has been released.
I wrote "Wish you good morning" as that's the closest translation I can think of in English for something we don't use, but it marked it wrong and said "you say good morning". Come on, Duo...
Wish you good morning = I wish good morning to you
Εύχεστε καλημέρα = You (plural) wish good morning (to someone - unspecified)
There is great difference between the two and, while this might not be something frequently said in English, exchanging pleasantries is a big part of everyday interactions in Greek, so it's good to know ;)
