Questions & Answers about Το γουρούνι τρώει τώρα.
Το is the definite article, meaning the. It agrees with γουρούνι in gender, number, and case.
Here it is:
- neuter
- singular
- nominative (because το γουρούνι is the subject)
So το γουρούνι = the pig.
In Greek, grammatical gender is not the same as biological sex.
Γουρούνι is simply a neuter noun in Greek, so it takes the neuter article το. That does not mean the pig is considered sexless in real life; it just means the noun belongs to the neuter gender class.
This is very common in Greek, especially with animal names.
It is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence — the one doing the action.
In Το γουρούνι τρώει τώρα, the pig is the one eating, so το γουρούνι is nominative.
A useful extra point: for many neuter nouns in Greek, the nominative and accusative look the same, so the form itself does not change here.