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- "You are fast."
"You are fast."
Translation:Είσαι γρήγορος.
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It's γρήγορη, it was not accepted before but it's added now as a correct sentence. Thanks for the input!
Είσαι γρήγορο is not accepted. But I could be talking to a παιδί which is neutre...?
Wen talking to someone directly like that, you use his/her natural sex. So you won't say είσαι γρήγορο (on its own) to a girl because κορίτσι is neuter, the same way you won't say είσαι γρήγορος to a woman because άνθρωπος(=human) is masculine. In both cases, because you are talking to a female person you use the feminine γρήγορη. The same thing applies if you are talking to animals. But if you say είσαι γρήγορο κορίτσι to a girl, then γρήγορο is an adjective to the word κορίτσι and has to be in neuter form. The same applies to the example I gave above saying to a woman είσαι γρήγορος άνθρωπος=You are a fast human. To conclude: Είσαι γρήγορο is not correct in this case because it is not followed by a noun that is neuter, and you would have to use your speaker's natural sex.
That would be more or less like saying “you are quickly”.... perhaps that might mean that you exist in a fast sort of way? A very odd thing to say; “to be” doesn’t usually take adverbs of manner,
