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Modern Greek = An uncodified language?
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ellasevia
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16 October 2010 at 9:59pm | IP Logged

Nudimmud wrote:

John Smith wrote:

maybe not irregular but unpredictable???

E.g. both Poli (city) and agapi (love) have the same ending in the singular. In the plural, however, they take different endings. Polis and agapes.

You do have a point, just by looking at πόλη you would not be able to figure out from the fact that it's feminine and ends in -η that it belongs to the class of nouns that form their plural in -εις. But there is a rule for this class which is pretty accurate: members are the words πόλη, πίστη and pretty much all nouns ending in -ση, -ξη.

And words ending in -ψη, too, I would think:

η σκέψη --> οι σκέψεις
η κόψη --> οι κόψεις
η ανακάλυψη --> οι ανακαλύψεις
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17 October 2010 at 2:56am | IP Logged

ellasevia wrote:

And words ending in -ψη, too, I would think:

Yes, omitting that was a mistake on my part.
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