Letters and stress Flashcards
Small and Capital Letters
When small-letter words start a sentence…
they are spelled with an initial capital letter.
Small and Capital Letters
All proper nouns are spelled…
with an initial capital: Names of persons, months, and days of the week (unlike French). Abstract nouns (such as justice) and concrete nouns (such as table) are spelled with an initial small letter.
The full stop (.), the comma (,), the exclamation mark (!), and the ellipsis (…) are…
identical to the ones used in the Latin alphabet.
The Greek interrogation mark
(;)
The Greek quotation marks
(«__»)
Words with identical phonetic structure differ in meaning because…
of the stress.
Example: πότε (pòte) and ποτέ (potè), mean “when” and
“ever” (or “never”) respectively.
Stress is restricted to one of the…
last three syllables of the word. No matter how long a Greek word is, the stress will never move beyond the third syllable.
The stress is represented in small-letter writing (unfortunately not in capital letters) by…
an accent mark on the stressed vowel of the word.
Examples: πότε/ποτέ, φόρα/φορά, Αθηνά/Αθήνα, ωμός/ώμος
(pòte/potè, fòra/forà, Athinà/Athìna, omòs/òmos)
The accent mark is there to indicate…
which vowel is stronger.
The accent mark is not used…
in monosyllabic words.
