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Day: July 20, 2016

In what situations would you use an article in English where you wouldn’t in Modern Greek? And vice-versa?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek

Rather than make up an answer, I googled and am posting from the first blog I found: Πότε δεν χρησιμοποιούμε το οριστικό άρθρο the Proper names in Modern Greek always take a definite article. It’s quite rare in English: rivers, families, plural countries. Nouns with generic reference take a definite article in Modern Greek and […]