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foreign names
by Guest User - Monday, 14 January 2008, 01:58 AM
  hello everybody.
i wonder how to use genetive and accusitive cases with foreign names (of people or places) that don't have greek endings.
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Re: foreign names
by Andreas Leitgeb - Monday, 14 January 2008, 04:32 AM
  I think, they remain uninflected.

But any eventually preceding article or
"κυριός"/"κυρία" will still be inflected,
to make the sentence clear.
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Απάντηση: Re: foreign names
by Andreas Leitgeb - Monday, 14 January 2008, 07:02 AM
  Sorry, I made an accent-shift in my previous post:
It should be "κύριος", not "κυριός", of course.
("κυρία", I think, was right, btw.)
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