Η φίλη μου παρακολουθεί ένα ντοκιμαντέρ για την Ελλάδα, ενώ εγώ διαβάζω ελληνικές λέξεις στο κινητό.

In Greek, the usual order for a possessed noun is:

article + noun + possessive pronoun

So you say:

• η φίλη μου = my (female) friend
• ο φίλος μου = my (male) friend
• το βιβλίο μου = my book

You do not normally put the possessive before the noun the way English does.
Forms like μου φίλη sound poetic or old‑fashioned and aren’t used in everyday speech for simple possession.

They are the feminine and masculine forms of friend:

• ο φίλος = male friend
• η φίλη = female friend

The article also changes with gender:

• ο for masculine singular
• η for feminine singular
• το for neuter singular

So η φίλη μου clearly refers to a female friend. If you said ο φίλος μου, it would be a male friend.

Greek possessive pronouns (μου, σου, του, της, μας, σας, τους) normally follow the noun:

• η φίλη μου – my friend
• το σπίτι σου – your house
• το αυτοκίνητό του – his car

Placing μου before the noun (like μου φίλη) is unusual in modern spoken Greek and tends to sound literary, emotional, or poetic, and not like a neutral my friend.

Both verbs are about watching, but they have different nuances:

• βλέπω = to see, to watch (more general, like see/watch TV, see a movie)
• παρακολουθώ = to follow/watch something attentively, often over a period of time (a documentary, a series, a course, a lecture)

A documentary is something you pay attention to and often follow, so:

• παρακολουθεί ένα ντοκιμαντέρ suggests she is watching / following a documentary (attentively).

You could say βλέπει ένα ντοκιμαντέρ, and it would still be correct, just a bit more neutral and less “focused”.

It can mean both. Modern Greek does not have a separate present continuous form. The simple present (Ενεστώτας) covers:

• she watches (habit)
• she is watching (right now)

So Η φίλη μου παρακολουθεί ένα ντοκιμαντέρ could be:

• My friend is watching a documentary (now)
  or
• My friend watches a documentary (regularly)

Context – and here the rest of the sentence – usually tells you it’s right now.

ένα is the indefinite article (a / an). In this sentence:

• ένα ντοκιμαντέρ = a documentary / one documentary

It describes one specific (though not identified) documentary that she’s watching at that moment.

If you wanted to talk about documentaries in general, you’d normally use the plural:

• παρακολουθεί ντοκιμαντέρ – she watches documentaries (no article, general idea)
• παρακολουθεί τα ντοκιμαντέρ – she watches the documentaries (a specific set)

Here, ένα ντοκιμαντέρ is natural because it’s a single documentary she is watching right now.

Ελλάδα is a feminine noun (like η Ελλάδα = Greece).

Greek articles change form depending on case. After most prepositions, Greek uses the accusative case. The feminine accusative singular article is:

• την (before consonants)
• often written τη before consonants in everyday writing, but still pronounced tin

So:

• η Ελλάδα (nominative, subject form)
• την Ελλάδα (accusative, after a preposition like για)

για την Ελλάδα literally = about/toward Greece, and the grammar demands την, not η.

για is a very common preposition. Here it means about:

• ένα ντοκιμαντέρ για την Ελλάδα = a documentary about Greece

In Greek, prepositions almost always require the accusative case for the following noun. So:

• για + η Ελλάδα → για την Ελλάδα (accusative feminine singular)

You don’t have to “feel” the case change as an English speaker at first; just learn the correct article form that follows each preposition.

ενώ is a conjunction that connects two actions and often translates as:

• while (two things happening at the same time)
• or whereas (contrast)

In this sentence, it is temporal (time) and mildly contrastive:

• ενώ εγώ διαβάζω… = while I (on the other hand) am reading…

Rough comparison:

• όταν = when (time, more neutral: όταν διαβάζω, δεν μιλάω – when I read, I don’t talk)
• καθώς = as / while (often descriptive, parallel background action)
• ενώ = while with a feel of contrast between clauses

Here, the contrast is between what my friend is doing and what I am doing.

In Greek you can usually drop the subject pronoun because the verb ending shows the person:

• διαβάζω already tells you I read / I am reading.

So:

• ενώ διαβάζω ελληνικές λέξεις… is grammatically correct.

However, including εγώ adds emphasis or contrast:

• ενώ εγώ διαβάζω… ≈ while I (by contrast) am reading…

It highlights the difference between my friend and me. That’s why εγώ is kept here.

λέξη (word) is a feminine noun:

• singular: η λέξη
• plural: οι λέξεις

In the sentence we have:

• ελληνικές λέξεις – Greek words

Both words are:

• feminine
• plural
• accusative (because they are the direct object of διαβάζω)

So ελληνικές is the feminine plural accusative form of the adjective ελληνικός, -ή, -ό, agreeing fully with λέξεις in gender, number, and case.

Word order: In Greek, adjectives commonly come before the noun:

• ελληνικές λέξεις = Greek words

στο is a contraction of the preposition σε + the neuter article το:

• σε + το = στο
• σε + τον = στον (masc.)
• σε + την = στην (fem.)

σε by itself is very flexible and can correspond to in, on, at, or to, depending on context.

Here:

• στο κινητό literally: in/on the mobile
  but it is understood as on the mobile phone or on (my) phone.

English chooses on here, but Greek uses σε (→ στο) for many locations, including places, devices, and screens.

Greek often omits the possessive when context makes it obvious. If you say:

• διαβάζω λέξεις στο κινητό, in a normal context people assume your own phone.

To make it explicit, you can say:

• στο κινητό μου – on my phone

Both are correct. The version without μου is just less specific, but usually understood as “my” in everyday conversation.

Yes. Literally:

• κινητός = mobile / movable (adjective)
• κινητό τηλέφωνο = mobile phone

In everyday speech, Greeks usually shorten κινητό τηλέφωνο to just:

• το κινητό – the mobile (phone)

It’s a neuter noun here. That’s why it takes the neuter article το, and in the contracted form with σε you get στο κινητό.

Greek accents mark the stressed syllable of the word. A few from the sentence:

• φίλη – stress on φί‑ (FI‑li)
• Ελλάδα – stress on ‑λά‑ (e‑LA‑tha)
• εγώ – stress on ‑γώ (e‑GO)
• κινητό – stress on ‑τό (ki‑ni‑TO)
• παρακολουθεί – stress on ‑θεί (pa‑ra‑ko‑lou‑THI)

Key points:

• Each word has one written accent (except a few special cases like enclitics/combinations).
• The accent shows which syllable you stress when pronouncing.
• Stress is important: changing stress can change meaning or make a word sound wrong to native speakers.

The word ντοκιμαντέρ keeps the foreign stress; in practice it is pronounced with stress on the last syllable (ndo‑ki‑man‑TER), but it doesn’t take a written accent in many spellings because it’s a recent loanword, and usage varies.