Το βράδυ φτιάχνω απλό βραδινό και βλέπω ταινία.

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Breakdown of Το βράδυ φτιάχνω απλό βραδινό και βλέπω ταινία.

• το βράδυ: in the evening
• βλέπω: to see
• απλός: simple

Questions & Answers about Το βράδυ φτιάχνω απλό βραδινό και βλέπω ταινία.

Why does the sentence start with Το βράδυ and not something like Στο βράδυ to mean in the evening?

In Greek, times of day like πρωί, μεσημέρι, απόγευμα, βράδυ are very often used with just the definite article to mean in the morning / at noon / in the afternoon / in the evening, without any preposition:

• Το πρωί = in the morning
• Το μεσημέρι = at noon
• Το βράδυ = in the evening

So Το βράδυ φτιάχνω… literally looks like The evening I make…, but idiomatically it means In the evening, I make….

Στο βράδυ is not used in this meaning; it would sound wrong in this context. For time expressions like this, Greek usually doesn’t use a preposition.

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Is Το βράδυ the subject of the sentence, or something else grammatically?

Grammatically, Το βράδυ is not the subject; it is an adverbial expression of time.

• It is in the accusative case: το βράδυ (not το βράδι in nominative vs accusative—the form is the same in neuter, but its function is adverbial).
• This use of the accusative to express when something happens is very common in Greek:
  
  • Κάθε μέρα διαβάζω. = I study every day.
  • Κάθε Κυριακή πηγαίνω στην εκκλησία. = I go to church every Sunday.

So Το βράδυ = (On) the evening / In the evening (a time setting), while the subject is understood as I from the verb ending in φτιάχνω and βλέπω.

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