Panhellenic Modern Greek flashcards
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- πτώση
- A grammatical case marking relationships within a construction, identified through Modern Greek morphology and sentence function rather than an English gloss.
- κλητική
- The case used in direct address in relevant Modern Greek noun forms, distinguished from possession or other genitive relationships.
- συμφωνία
- The matching of grammatical categories between linked words, such as article and noun or subject and finite verb.
- ρηματική όψη
- The aspectual presentation of an event as continuing, repeated or bounded, interpreted separately from its location in time.
- παρατατικός
- An imperfect past form commonly presenting background or repeated activity, without representing every past event in the same way.
- αόριστος
- A past tense form with perfective aspect, distinguished from related dependent or future forms that use a perfective stem.
- υποτακτική
- A category in traditional Modern Greek school grammar involving dependent verb constructions and aspect choices, often associated with να.
- αντωνυμία
- A pronoun referring to a person, thing or proposition whose role and antecedent must be established from the actual context.
- θέμα
- The central subject of a passage, distinguished from an isolated example or the writer’s specific argumentative position.
- θέση
- A position supported or examined in an argument, identified through the text rather than inferred from a familiar topic alone.
- συμπέρασμα
- A conclusion connected to supporting reasons or evidence, whose strength must not exceed what those reasons actually establish.
- σύνθεση
- An integration of relevant ideas across materials, showing relationships and disagreements rather than merely placing separate summaries beside each other.
- συνοχή
- The linguistic linking of clauses and paragraphs through reference and connectors, making relationships in the text recoverable.
- επιχείρημα
- A reason offered in support of a claim, requiring explanation of its relevance rather than a confident assertion alone.
- αποδέκτης
- The intended recipient of a message, whose knowledge, relationship and needs shape register, selection and explanation.
- παράφραση
- A reformulation preserving essential meaning in different wording, adapted to the task without changing conditions or inventing information.
- αφηγητής
- The narrative voice presenting events in a literary text, distinguished from the actual author and from other represented speakers.
- παρομοίωση
- An explicit comparison connecting images or ideas, whose particular effect needs to be explained within the surrounding passage.
- μεταφορά
- A figurative transfer of meaning between domains, interpreted through the specific wording and context rather than a fixed emotional formula.
- ερμηνεία
- A supported account of a text’s meaning, connecting observations and context while acknowledging limits or defensible alternatives.