Το μαγείρεμα με βοηθάει να χαλαρώνω το βράδυ.

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Breakdown of Το μαγείρεμα με βοηθάει να χαλαρώνω το βράδυ.

• το βράδυ: in the evening
• με: me
• βοηθάω: to help

Questions & Answers about Το μαγείρεμα με βοηθάει να χαλαρώνω το βράδυ.

What is το μαγείρεμα exactly? Is it a verb or a noun?

It is a noun, not a finite verb.

Το μαγείρεμα comes from the verb μαγειρεύω (to cook) and means cooking as an activity. In English, cooking can look like a verb form, but here the Greek word is clearly being used as a noun:

• το μαγείρεμα = cooking
• Το μαγείρεμα με βοηθάει... = Cooking helps me...

So grammatically, το μαγείρεμα is the subject of the sentence.

Why does it have the article το? English usually just says Cooking, not the cooking.

Greek uses the definite article much more often than English.

With general activities, abstract ideas, and nouns used in a broad sense, Greek often includes the article:

• το μαγείρεμα = cooking
• η μουσική = music
• το διάβασμα = studying / reading

So το μαγείρεμα does not necessarily mean the cooking in the English sense. In this sentence, it simply means cooking as a general activity.

Why is it με βοηθάει and not μου βοηθάει?