Breakdown of Έβαλα τις βαλίτσες στο πορτμπαγκάζ και τώρα είμαστε έτοιμοι να φύγουμε.
Questions & Answers about Έβαλα τις βαλίτσες στο πορτμπαγκάζ και τώρα είμαστε έτοιμοι να φύγουμε.
Έβαλα is the aorist form of βάζω and means I put / I placed / I loaded as a single completed action.
It is 1st person singular, so the subject is I.
It does not look like βάζω because this verb has a different aorist stem:
- present: βάζω
- aorist: έβαλα
That is very common in Greek: some verbs change stem in the past.
Because βαλίτσες is the direct object of Έβαλα.
After a transitive verb like βάζω, the thing affected by the action goes in the accusative case. So:
- nominative: οι βαλίτσες = the suitcases as the subject
- accusative: τις βαλίτσες = the suitcases as the object
Here, I am doing the action, and the suitcases are what I put somewhere, so Greek uses τις βαλίτσες.