Lonely Planet Greek Phrasebook & Dictionary

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Here are some more useful greetings in Greek that include things like how to say hello in Greek or what goodbye in Greek is. Word: The different forms of 1, 3, 4, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24 etc and 1000, are used with nouns of different genders. The accent (similar in usage as in Spanish), if written, is placed on the vowel of the tonic syllable, or onto the second vowel if there's a diphthong. If there's an accent at the first vowel of a diphthong, or a diaeresis on the second, then it isn't an actual diphthong and the two vowels are pronunced separately. The former occasion is the most common, but since words written in capital letters never get accents unless they are at the beginning of a word, the diaeresis is the only way to note the broken diphthong at all-caps phrases - English such example: naïve. (diairesis = two dots on top of iota or upsilon, Ϊ/ϊ - Ϋ/ϋ) Here’s a look at the whole Greek alphabet, from alpha to omega, with sounds and examples thrown in to help you get to grips with it: Where better to begin than with greeting phrases in Greek? You’ll need these ones from the moment you step off the plane and out into the balmy airs of Athens. You could even try them out at passport control if you’re feeling confident…

Greeks prefer all-Greek words to mixed Greek-and-Latin words. "Meter", "liter", and "gram" being Greek, they don't use Latin prefixes like "milli" with them. Instead they use the following: We know that food is one of the most important things in Greece for many a traveler. We couldn’t agree more. From sizzling saganaki cheeses to creamy tzatziki, there’s all sorts here just waiting to be sampled. Most tavernas in most touristy spots will have English menus at hand. Some won’t though, so remember… Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia) Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Κλεόβουλος; also quoted in Stobaeus, Florilegium 3.1.172. Hoûtós estin o Plátōnos ánthrōpos. "Here is Plato's man." In response, Plato added to his definition:

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The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the 8th century BC. It is still in use today. It is the first and oldest alphabet in the narrow sense that it notes each vowel and consonant with a separate symbol. The letters were also used to represent Greek numerals, beginning in the 2nd century BC. Many Greek words have been borrowed into other languages, so you will find a lot of these words familiar, such as τραυμα ( trauma, "injury") and σοφία ( sofia "wisdom, knowledge"). Originally they were borrowed into Latin, which became the Romance languages. The changes Greek words underwent in Latin are different from those they underwent in Greek. For instance, in a rare case of someone actually returning a word he borrowed, κινημα ( kinema, motion) was borrowed into Latin as cinema, which in French acquired the meaning "movie", and was returned to Greek as σινεμα ( sinema). The capital letters are more or less the same with the ones of the English alphabet. Although the small letters seem entirely different (and some of them are indeed) at people's handwriting they can be extremely close to English. Greeks count with kilograms and rarely with liters (liters usually only for bottled water, oil and gasoline). They count distances on meters and kilometers (1 mile being 1,609 meters). Also they don't use inches but meters and centimeters (1 inche 2,54 centimeters)

Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather Greek has changed less in the last two thousand years than English has in the last five hundred. It still has three genders, five cases, and movable ν. Although the dative dropped out of use in Greek before the dative merged with the accusative in English, one can still form the dative of μπαγλαμας (a stringed instrument smaller than the μπουζουκι), even though it belongs to a new declension. So if you know some Attic or Koine Greek and pronounce it as Modern Greek, though you will sound archaic, you will probably be understood. One of the hardest things for English speakers approaching the Greek language is the fact that Greek uses a different alphabet. It’s actually been in use since the 9 th century BC, so is far more venerable than many language systems currently in use around the globe.

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Greek was the language of choice for the iconic civilizations of the Heroic Age and then, later on, city states like Athens and Sparta. Homer used it to write his great epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and the New Testament is also thought to have been written in Greek before it was written in Latin. The upshot? This is, without question, one of the most important languages in Western culture. Greek (ελληνικά) is one of the oldest attested Indo-European languages, known from 1400 BCE in inscriptions in a syllabary of Minoan origin. The present alphabet was introduced by a Phoenician called Qadmu (Καδμος) about 800 BCE and has been in use continuously since then, with a few letters added and removed along the way. The 24-letter alphabet used in Classical Greek is the same one used today. Greek forms its own isolated branch within the Indo-European language family. Thus it is not related closely to any other Indo-European language. Greek is the official language of both Greece and Cyprus, but is only spoken in the south of the latter. Greek (ελληνικά, IPA: [eliniˈka] or ελληνική γλώσσα, IPA: [eliniˈci ˈɣlosa]), an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were previously used. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script, and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Coptic, and many other writing systems.

Mουσακάς (Moussaka) – Moussaka is Greece’s national dish. It’s one for lovers of aubergine and slow-cooked meat! There are also some great veggie versions on offer. All vowels have the same short length. So yes, there are 2 ways to write 'e', 6 to write 'i' and 2 letters to write 'o'! Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Greek phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Greek is spoken.Many Greek words have been borrowed into other languages, so you will find a lot of these words familiar, such as τραύμα ( trauma, "injury") and σοφία ( sofia "wisdοm, knowledge"). Originally they were borrowed into Latin, which became the Romance languages. The changes Greek words underwent in Latin are different from those they underwent in Greek. For instance, in a rare case of someone actually returning a word he borrowed, κίνημα ( kinema, motion) was borrowed into Latin as cinema, which in French acquired the meaning "movie", and was returned to Greek as σινεμά ( sinema), but there is still a proper Greek word for it "κινηματογράφος" which is widely used.

Loosely following ws:Lives of the Eminent Philosophers/Book I#Thales, a bit different in earlier Plutarch, De genio Socratis, Section 6

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A hoplite could not escape the field of battle unless he tossed away the heavy and cumbersome shield. Therefore, "losing one's shield" meant desertion. ( Plutarch, Moralia, 241)



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