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- "He writes about an animal."
"He writes about an animal."
Translation:Αυτός γράφει για ένα ζώο.
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Anyone besides me notice it's easier to translate Greek sentences into English, than the other way around? But, translating the English into Greek makes the Greek word stick in the memory better?
Yes, I do personally, but different people learn in different ways. Out of everything, I find understanding spoken Greek the hardest, but then I've talked to some people that have learnt Greek primarily as a spoken language rather than from textbooks or Duo or whatever, and it's the reading and grammar that they find hard.
That's a very good point! I have no idea how adults can learn Greek as a spoken language without any "visuals". It would drive me nuts! Having said that, I still wish there would be half-half English-to-Greek and Greek-to-English exercises. Maybe not early in the course, but when the app detects that you make only a couple mistakes per lesson, then it could switch to "more English-to-Greek" content.
I'm a Grade 3 drop out. I learned by speaking and nowadays music, lexilogos (webpage), bikilexiko, wordreference are my best friends. Autocorrect helps on my smartphone.
There are no rule whe to use one or the other. Actually, when speaking it's most common to use the first one to talk faster. The second one (without the elision) is used when talking slower. So ,it's just a personal preference when to use one or the other.
Would "γράφει περί ενός ζώου" be a correct (if rather formal) way of translating this?
Thanks Troll, good to know! I was marked as incorrect for using it, so would you be able to add it if you haven't done so already? Much appreciated.
Weirdest thing happened. I submitted the answer I wrote above. Then it told me I was wrong and wrote this.
"You used he wrong word. Αυτός γράφει για ένα ζώο."
now i typed the same answer i did before when it said i was wrong, and now it says im correct. so strange.
Both correct. I'm not a native speaker, but to me, σχετικά με is more formal and something that I don't really hear in my village. I think perhaps you'd use it if there was potential confusion between the "for" and "about" meanings of the word, eg if you had something like Αυτός γράφει για ένα αγόρι and you wanted to make clear that he was writing about the boy, rather than for the boy. But the για seems to be much more common in my experience.
How do I know when I need με? Would just σχετικά on its own be acceptable here?
"Αυτος γραφει σχετικα με ζωο." This is what I put, although I wanted to put με ενα ζωο. Why did I put the wrong answer? Because the suggestion above did NOT have ενα, just ζωο. To copy the suggestions or not to copy, that is the question. Anyway, at least my instinct was right. (Though it is not always, which is why I look at the hidden suggestions.)
