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Old August 18, 2011, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by aleCcowaN View Post
Greek has declentions like German? Agios o Theos!

I couldn't learnt them in German, how I'm gonna do it in Greek? I'll end up like Brian here:
Ah, but at least Greek does not have a locative case, which is what our Brian didn't know. I can't speak for modern Greek, but Ancient Greek has 5 declension cases (nominative, vocative, acc, gen, dative), 3 genders, 3 numbers (singular, dual, plural) and around 14 different ways of declining a noun, plus numerous irregular ones. Adjectives also have several declensions. But these pale into insignificance when compared with the difficulty of conjugating verbs. It is a fantastic mental exercise, if you like that kind of thing.

I assume modern Greek is much simplified, but still more complicated than German, which has a really simple system of declensions, even when including weak nouns.

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