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| benzionisrael Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 4656 days ago 79 posts - 142 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese, SpanishB2 | Message 1 of 3 15 April 2012 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
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Recently I have been considering adding the Greek language to my plan of languages studies.
I would like to ask how is adjective declension in modern Greek in terms of complexity compared with other Indo-European languages? Recently I encountered a good site for learning basic Greek grammar. I checked out the adjectives section but was surpised to find that in mordern Greek adjective declension doesnt seem as dificult as I expected it would be. http://users.forthnet.gr/agn/drennolds1/lesson_5__Adjectives .htm For example, according to the website above, there is only a distinction between nominative and accusative in masculine forms of adjectives whereas when an ajective is used in feminine or neuter there is no change in conjugation. And forming plurals doesnt seem too complicated either. On the other hand, Slavic languages like Russian or Serbo-Croatian for example seem to have more numerous and complicated adjective declensions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 3 15 April 2012 at 8:10pm | IP Logged |
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Modern Greek adjectives are not nearly as difficult as they were in earlier stages of the language. Your main problem will be to accumulate enough vocabulary.
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| cnv3 Tetraglot Newbie Finland Joined 4771 days ago 3 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Finnish*, Greek, English, Ancient Greek Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Latin | Message 3 of 3 03 May 2012 at 7:05pm | IP Logged |
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The website of the link is not quite comprehensive.
Almost all MG adjectives have 24 forms (sg/pl, m/f/n, nom/acc/gen/voc), some have more, some have less. Some of the forms are identical, e.g. ωραίος has 15 different forms. In the Λεξικό της Κοινής Νεοελληνικής, the adjectives and participles (which are used mostly as adjectives) are divided into 17 declensions and 9 sub-declensions. That however sounds maybe more complicated than it really is. Unfortunately I can't make a comparison to Slavic languages. Edit: The declensions can be found here: http://www.greek- language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/lexica/onomatiko/ad jectives.html Edited by cnv3 on 03 May 2012 at 7:11pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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