Ο ασθενής πήρε το χάπι του και τώρα νιώθει καλύτερα.

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Breakdown of Ο ασθενής πήρε το χάπι του και τώρα νιώθει καλύτερα.

• και: and
• παίρνω: to take
• καλύτερα: better

Questions & Answers about Ο ασθενής πήρε το χάπι του και τώρα νιώθει καλύτερα.

Why is it Ο ασθενής with ο? In English we can just say patient sometimes.

Greek usually uses the definite article much more often than English.

• ο ασθενής = the patient
• In a full sentence, Greek normally says Ο ασθενής πήρε... rather than just Ασθενής πήρε...

Also, ασθενής here is:

• masculine
• singular
• nominative (because it is the subject of the sentence)

So ο matches the noun grammatically.

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What exactly does ασθενής mean?

Ασθενής means patient in a medical context.

It can also literally relate to someone who is ill or weak, but in everyday Greek, in a sentence like this, it is naturally understood as the patient.

A useful detail:

• ο ασθενής = the male patient
• η ασθενής = the female patient

The noun has the same basic form for masculine and feminine, but the article changes.

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Why is the verb πήρε used here? What form is it?