Breakdown of Ο προϊστάμενος επέμεινε να στείλουμε την αναφορά σήμερα, παρόλο που είχαμε ήδη κάνει υπερωρία.
έχω
to have
να
to
σήμερα
today
στέλνω
to send
Questions & Answers about Ο προϊστάμενος επέμεινε να στείλουμε την αναφορά σήμερα, παρόλο που είχαμε ήδη κάνει υπερωρία.
What does ο προϊστάμενος mean exactly?
Ο προϊστάμενος means the supervisor, the manager, or the person in charge.
A few useful notes:
- προϊστάμενος is masculine singular here.
- It is often used for someone who is above others in a workplace hierarchy.
- Depending on context, English might translate it as supervisor, boss, department head, or manager.
So in this sentence, it refers to the person who had authority to insist.
Why is there ο before προϊστάμενος?
Ο is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.
It appears because προϊστάμενος is the subject of the sentence:
- Ο προϊστάμενος = the supervisor
In Greek, nouns normally take an article much more often than in English, especially when you mean a specific person or thing.
Why does προϊστάμενος have the two dots: ϊ?
The two dots are a diaeresis. They show that the vowels are pronounced separately.
So προϊστάμενος is pronounced roughly as:
- pro-i-STA-me-nos
not as if οι were the normal Greek vowel combination pronounced ee.
Without the diaeresis, a learner might try to read it as one sound, which would be wrong here.