Modern Greek sentence on Tatoeba: wrong?

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Re: Modern Greek sentence on Tatoeba: wrong?

Postby Dragon27 » Fri Sep 23, 2022 6:59 pm

According to official rules (or what is believed by some to be official rules?), yeah, but Greeks don't always follow them (especially, since, as far as I understand, until recently, both forms were officially acceptable). In oral language the "ν" in this word and in this position (before the continuant consonant) isn't pronounced anyway, so that's why people may also omit it in writing.
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Re: Modern Greek sentence on Tatoeba: wrong?

Postby snoopy » Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:36 am

According to my tutor, this change is fairly recent. I have a textbook published in 2014, and according to the rules there, the final -ν should not be added before masculine words starting from λ except for τον λένε. So I had to cross this part out in the textbook and write that masculine words always need the final -v.
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