Breakdown of Η συνεργάτιδά μου είπε ένα μικρό αστείο, και ξαφνικά η ατμόσφαιρα στο γραφείο έγινε πιο ήρεμη.
Questions & Answers about Η συνεργάτιδά μου είπε ένα μικρό αστείο, και ξαφνικά η ατμόσφαιρα στο γραφείο έγινε πιο ήρεμη.
In this sentence, μου belongs to η συνεργάτιδά μου, so it means my.
A very helpful clue is the spelling συνεργάτιδά with the extra accent. That shows that μου is an enclitic attached to the noun phrase η συνεργάτιδα. So the structure is:
η συνεργάτιδά μου = my colleague
If μου were going with the verb είπε and meant to me, the sentence would mean something different, and writers often clarify that with μού είπε. So:
- Η συνεργάτιδά μου είπε... = My colleague said...
- Η συνεργάτιδα μού είπε... = The colleague said to me...
Context also helps, but here the accent pattern strongly points to my colleague.
The basic noun is συνεργάτιδα. It is stressed on the antepenultimate syllable.
When a weak pronoun such as μου is added after a word like this, Greek often adds a second written accent to keep the stress pattern clear:
- συνεργάτιδα
- συνεργάτιδά μου
So this is not a different case or a different word. It is the same noun, just written with an extra accent because of the following enclitic μου.