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OK, that's a really weird cognate but a talika is a horse drawn carriage in Thracian dialect of Turkish. However, that's not a word in standard Turkish.
Does the same word have a Bulgarian cognate? Weird Thracian-only vocabulary in Turkish generally tends to have Bulgarian roots.
I've added "is passing" as well as "'s passing" to the 130 variations we have for this sentence. But let's keep in mind that we are teaching Greek and it might not always be possible to cater to everyone's personal preference for expression as long as the main idea is conveyed.
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I understand. The problem in fact is not the Greek, but the English translations which we are asked to write. The Greek language, exactly as the Italian, is much more free and with so many more possible variants than English. It's really difficult to put all that in a computer program.
No, the problem is prevalent in many translations. We very often do not have exact equivalents of the source language and have to resort to paraphrasing in which case the translation may seem odd since it is not a word for word translation. That's the reason we add as many variations of the translations as possible.
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Truck is, I believe, an American version of lorry.What is the difference between «φορτηγό» and « νταλίκα»?
A Νταλίκα is much bigger we would call it a trailer truck a φορτηγό is a "truck" or "lorry". Try googling each word and checking the images.
Yes, φορτηγό is a more generic term for trucks/lorries that includes smaller vehicles, while νταλίκες are (big) trailer trucks, as jaye explains above (also known as tractor trucks, semi-trailer trucks).
