Ο πύργος φαίνεται από μακριά.

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Breakdown of Ο πύργος φαίνεται από μακριά.

• μακριά: far
• φαίνομαι: to be visible
• ο πύργος: tower

Questions & Answers about Ο πύργος φαίνεται από μακριά.

Why is there an article in Ο πύργος? Does Greek use the more often than English?

Yes. Ο means the and is the masculine singular nominative article.

Greek usually uses the definite article more regularly than English does. So Ο πύργος is literally the tower. In many contexts, Greek prefers to include the article where English might sometimes leave it out.

In this sentence, ο πύργος is the subject of the verb.

Why does πύργος end in -ος?

Because πύργος is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, which is a very common ending pattern in Greek.

So here:

• ο πύργος = the tower as the subject

If the noun changed role in the sentence, its form might change too. For example, Greek marks grammatical function with case endings more than English does.

What exactly is φαίνεται? Is it active, passive, or something else?