Χτύπησα τον αγκώνα μου στην πόρτα και τώρα πονάει λίγο.

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Breakdown of Χτύπησα τον αγκώνα μου στην πόρτα και τώρα πονάει λίγο.

• και: and
• λίγο: a little
• μου: my

Questions & Answers about Χτύπησα τον αγκώνα μου στην πόρτα και τώρα πονάει λίγο.

What tense is χτύπησα, and why is there no word for I?

Χτύπησα is the aorist of χτυπάω / χτυπώ, so it means I hit / I banged in the sense of a single completed action.

Greek often drops subject pronouns when they are clear from the verb ending. Here, the ending -σα already tells you the subject is I, so εγώ is not needed.

Does χτύπησα here sound deliberate, like I hit something on purpose?

Not necessarily. In this kind of sentence, χτύπησα τον αγκώνα μου στην πόρτα usually means I banged my elbow on the door, very often accidentally.

So although χτυπάω can mean hit/strike, in everyday contexts with body parts it often has the natural English sense of bang or knock.

Why does Greek say τον αγκώνα μου with both τον and μου? Why not just the word for my elbow without an article?