Modern Greek

Noun

Meaning

the Greek language as spoken and written today

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

New Greek greek demotic romaic

Hypernyms

greek hellenic Hellenic language

Hyponyms

demotic romaic Katharevusa

Examples

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely. Rupert Murdoch

Based on its phonetic value in Modern Greek, gamma has also been introduced in a number of modern Latin-alphabet based phonetic notations ( Latin (or latinized) gamma Ɣ). Source: Internet

Because of their codification in the Modern Greek state, surnames have Katharevousa forms even though Katharevousa is no longer the official standard. Source: Internet

Modern Greek literature is usually (but not exclusively) written in polytonic orthography. Source: Internet

“I wrote another book in 2012 -- a textbook on Modern Greek -- and I gave it to Cambridge University Press because they wanted it, and they said they’d charge $39.00 for it. Source: Internet

In Modern Greek, as in Ancient Greek, second declension masculine nouns have a vocative ending in -ε; however, in practice the accusative case is often used as a vocative in informal speech, e.g. "Έλα εδώ, Χρήστο" "Come here, Christos" instead of ". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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