Breakdown of Ο προπονητής θέλει νίκη στο επόμενο παιχνίδι.
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Ο is the masculine singular definite article, so here it means the.
- Ο προπονητής = the coach
- It is used because προπονητής is:
- masculine
- singular
- in the nominative case (the subject of the sentence)
So Ο προπονητής is the full subject: The coach.
Προπονητής is a masculine noun meaning coach. In this sentence it is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject — the person doing the wanting.
The ending -ής is a common masculine noun ending in Greek. You do not need to treat it as a special meaning by itself here; it is just part of the noun’s normal form.
So:
- ο προπονητής = the coach (subject form)