Linux reached 10% of the desktop operating system market in Greece!

  • @guriinii
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    71 year ago

    Bravo! Out of curiosity, why does the Greek have “my” at the end?

    • wallmenisOP
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      21 year ago

      It seems you translated it. 😅 Well it is a saying… When someone is excited or proud of someone/something. I don’t know the specifics (even though I am a native). So please, if anyone else wants to explain, feel free to do so…

      • @MetaPhrastes
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        1 year ago

        I’m not a native but I can try to explain. Greek has two forms of expressing possession: the first is simply the genitive of the personal pronoun (in this case μου is the genitive of the first person singular pronoun εγώ). When expressing possession in this way it always follows the noun it refers to whereas the article comes before e.g. “my house” > “το σπίτι μου” and it’s invariable. (Note that in English possessives are determiners and can not co-exist with articles it’s either one or the other, in Greek this is not the case). The second form is in combination with “δικός” and these behave more like adjectives and must agree in gender and number with the noun they refer to “my house” > “το δικό μου σπίτι” vs “my houses” > “τα δικά μου σπίτια”.

        • wallmenisOP
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          21 year ago

          That is true… And that explains it in a literal sense