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"The prophet is sacred in her religion."
Translation:Ο προφήτης είναι ιερός στη θρησκεία της.
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I take it that a female prophet is still a masculine προφητης - ? Τricky to get the genders right here ...
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According to WordReference προφήτης can be male or female and it doesn’t give προφήτισσα. As it is unclear whether the “her” in the sentence refers to the prophet or not I thought it was safest to write “η προφήτης είναι ιερή...” Is this wrong? In English there is the word “prophetess” but we would actually mostly just use prophet for both sexes.
Using quote marks, Google returns almost no results for "η προφήτης", and those few ones are from some rather weird sources, so I believe it's not worth adding it.
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It would be nice if this could also be added to the translation hints that appear when you scroll over the word "prophet".
Ο προφήτης is masculine and ιερή is feminine, so they don't match.
Ο προφήτης είναι ιερός is used for a male prophet.
Η προφήτισσα είναι ιερή is used for a female prophet.
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Ah yes but we established this is a female prophet from the της at the end of the sentence and I was earlier marked wrong for saying his religion, to match Ο προφήτης
No, the sentence means that the prophet is sacred in the religion of the female person we were/are talking about. Της does not refer to the prophet, because the prophet is male (if you are presented with the Greek sentence).
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How can both of these sentences be correct? The final 'ν' only ever seems to be optional in these multiple choice questions...
Technically, only the version without the ν is correct. But it's all very confused - different sources give different views - so you might as well get just used to a bit of nu ambiguity. ;-)
I wrote a little more about it here.
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Guessing - agios refers to a person, iero to a condition or books or writing system, as in hieroglyphics.
