there is a word for "much" but it has many other meanings and that word is
wait for it
POLY
and you cant have 2 poly's together
dont tell me you have worked that out already
changing computer back in 10 mins
on the text doc with the app it says (in relation to ordering food you you ask for a table for two etc)
the reply
No Sorry "ohee" "leebAme"
and it just gives sorry as leebAme
and
Excuse me as "Me seehoreete"
the reply
No Sorry "ohee" "leebAme"
and it just gives sorry as leebAme
and
Excuse me as "Me seehoreete"
...about and you cant have 2 poly's together...in welsh mawr means big or large....if you want to make it bigger or larger....its mawr mawr
just looking the app seems to use "b" when they say "p" alot
this site is using "leepame"
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/akyrtzoglou/entry/survival_phrases_in
Store Clerk: leePAme, aLA den miLO angliKA.
I'm sorry, I do not speak English.
this site is using "leepame"
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/akyrtzoglou/entry/survival_phrases_in
Store Clerk: leePAme, aLA den miLO angliKA.
I'm sorry, I do not speak English.
strange people those welsh must be somthing to do with the rain and sheep 
mawr mawr mawr is the noise it makes when you get a question wrong ...
I get the poly bit now.. POLY like POLYPHONIC.. many voices, or several, or big amounts , much, lots,several ... I can sort of understand how that fits now...
not one i have come across, all my Greek is based on modern everyday spoken Greek [i can only read a few words]
did you work out what i said to the taxi driver [and it was polite]
I missed the second bit, thought you had translated....
thelooo peninda evro ya ston pafos... ackrivo... ohki polly ackrivo
theloo (sounds familiar but I can't call up a meaning)
peninda (not sure, is it a day of the week?.. I remember one of the days of the week sound a bit like the number 5 "pende")
evro (is that tomorrow.. remember Ive only been learning for 2 days...)
ya (thats a filler word like "for" or "of" ?)
ston (no idea)
Pafos - Paphos
...
ackrivo (sounds simlar to words I've heard but can't put a meaning to)
ohki - are you saying NO ? or maybe NOT ?
polly - good (not good ?)
ackrivo - again not sure...
thelooo peninda evro ya ston pafos... ackrivo... ohki polly ackrivo
theloo (sounds familiar but I can't call up a meaning)
peninda (not sure, is it a day of the week?.. I remember one of the days of the week sound a bit like the number 5 "pende")
evro (is that tomorrow.. remember Ive only been learning for 2 days...)
ya (thats a filler word like "for" or "of" ?)
ston (no idea)
Pafos - Paphos
...
ackrivo (sounds simlar to words I've heard but can't put a meaning to)
ohki - are you saying NO ? or maybe NOT ?
polly - good (not good ?)
ackrivo - again not sure...
thelooo and expression of shock ""MY GOD"" or equal
peninda fifty
evro euro
ya for
ston to
pafos...pafos
ackrivo. expensive
ohki polly ackrivo no very expensive
or in the vernacular
WHAT fifty quid to go to paffos thats bloody expensive
peninda fifty
evro euro
ya for
ston to
pafos...pafos
ackrivo. expensive
ohki polly ackrivo no very expensive
or in the vernacular
WHAT fifty quid to go to paffos thats bloody expensive
so whats the Greek for "can you shift the taxi off the roundabout, the bus can't get through" ?
not sure in greek but in cypriot its the same as english.... oh you sling yer hook or we go over you
some other things that I wondered about....
in English we say Right and Left but the word for RIGHT also is the opposite of WRONG and the word for LEFT also means something that wasn't brought with you... do these words do the same in Greek ?
So If I could remember the word for right (left is something along the lines of aristo and right is something like vexeea ).. would you also use it to say "that is right" if someone has said something correctly ?
Right as in correct....sostos
right as in ok stick to endaxi [ok]
right as in direction thexia on the right sta thexia turn right stripse thexia
left asin forgot.. no equal
left as in direction aristara on the left sta aristara turn left strpes aristara
to be considered fluent in a language you only need to know 250 words and be able to put them into sentences,, to get by yo need about 180
right as in ok stick to endaxi [ok]
right as in direction thexia on the right sta thexia turn right stripse thexia
left asin forgot.. no equal
left as in direction aristara on the left sta aristara turn left strpes aristara
to be considered fluent in a language you only need to know 250 words and be able to put them into sentences,, to get by yo need about 180
are you saying there isn't a Greek version or thats the phonetic ?left asin forgot.. no equal
to be considered fluent in a language you only need to know 250 words and be able to put them into sentences,, to get by yo need about 180
really !... so at this rate... been going to Cyprus since 2004.. so far managed to pick up the works for good morning and an almost passible thankyou... it should only take me about another 300 years to be fluent ....
there is no equivalent that i know for left [as forgot]
to say there is nothing left [because you have eaten it all] say then emine tipeta [then= turns a positive statement into a negative one] emine tipeta = something more. so then emine tipeta means we havent something more
to say there is nothing left [because you have eaten it all] say then emine tipeta [then= turns a positive statement into a negative one] emine tipeta = something more. so then emine tipeta means we havent something more
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