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SBE! I have to reply from my sickbed to thank you for this exhaustive and illuminating answer to my question! It is clearly laid out and amply supplied with pertinent guidelines of how to use each particle in context and what usages to avoid. I shall refer myself to it often. And thank you...

I was aware of this, cougr. It was that discussion, as you opined, that prompted my question. It still left me unsure of the subtle nuances of ρε & βρε. As for μωρέ and μωρή ((I should have also added μωρό) they seem in a different category. Incidentally, it seems that the word βρε is not Greek...

Beginners like me (wrongly) tend to think that the first two are synonymous. As for the remaining two its seems that μωρέ can mean ‘babe’ even when used of a woman and μωρή is an insult only to a woman. But I am very confused. Clearly the tone of voice in which the latter two are used is also...

A wonderful use of the Biblical idiom, SBE! A staged and hypocritical innocence that disguises inner guilt. Thank you!

Thanks, cougr….as ever!🙏

Performative Outrage' describes a public display of anger or strong emotion regarding a societal issue, primarily intended to signal one's virtue or alignment with a particular group or viewpoint, rather than stemming from a deeply felt personal conviction or leading to substantive

Thanks, Alexandra! I then presume that both words can be used in legal contexts as well. 🤩🙋‍♀️

In this song what is the exact difference in meaning between the nouns in bold:- Αν γίνουν οι ενδείξεις αποδείξεις τα πράματα είναι πλέον σοβαρά να ξέρεις θα σε διώξω δίχως τύψεις και δε θα τον γλιτώσεις τον καβγά. The only translation I can make of the first sentence is:- ‘If the proofs...

Thanks, cougr! 🤣

Χαχαχα, Πόντιε! Cougr, what is the first line of Vasilis Tstsanis’ Laiko genre song, so that I can find it and read it?

Sorry, cougr! Yes, those at #8. Mea culpa..🤦😥

I feel swamped by so many answers with examples! Thank you so much to all colleagues. What could I do to learn Greek without so much quality information as colleagues provide? Can cougr translate the dictiony examples he quotes? All I can get when I try to get a translation is ‘screenshot’. Not...

I have come across this phrase often but don’t quite know what it means and how it is used. Equivalents are given on various sites as, e.g. ‘God willing, eventually, like (that commonest of fillers!), happily, fortunately, all being well’ &c. Can colleagues illustrate, perhaps with examples its...

Χαχαχα. At least I realised it was a reference to ΠΑΟΚ! Your parsing was spot on. What can I say? Τσίμπα, ΠΑΟΚτσή! Άρπα την! 🤔

As usual, a lot of very good equivalents here, which I will note in my phrase book! Very great thanks to all for their help🙏😚 A query to m_a_a:- what does the reference to PAOK mean in a sentence about an Olympiakos fan? in Τι αμαρτίες πληρώνω (ρε καρντάσι) και μ' έχει κάνει παοκτσή η ζωή! ...

This is an idiomatic expression used in British English semi-humorously with a touch of self-deprecation. It is something that you say in order to make a joke that something you have to do or something that you are is a punishment for being bad, e.g. -I'm organising the office Christmas party...

Thanks, Ambrosia, for this very useful slang.gr cross reference. How metaphors develop from literal phrases is remarkable and very instructive. 🤣

Neither did I think of the simple solution! Occam’s razor….But thanks to all, particularly m_a_a! I hope colleagues don’t mind wasting time on my trivia. The trouble with Easy Greek is that several of the early episodes don’t have a transcript and 19, which should have had one so that you can...

There are many idioms here to note and learn and all of them are interesting. I had come across τους κάνανε κόγξες but not τους κάνανε χουνέρια. As usual, many thanks to all for their help.🤗

To Alexandra: the exact clip is from 1:50 onwards in Easy Greek 19. Greeks are being asked what they like and what they hate about Athens. These are the exact words spoken in the dialogues. One man had just said that the third thing he likes about Athens (they were asked to give three) was...