Breakdown of Ο προϊστάμενος προτιμά να υπάρχει καλή συνεννόηση στην ομάδα παρά να διορθώνουμε συνεχώς τα ίδια λάθη.
να
to
καλός
good
σε
in
υπάρχω
to exist
Questions & Answers about Ο προϊστάμενος προτιμά να υπάρχει καλή συνεννόηση στην ομάδα παρά να διορθώνουμε συνεχώς τα ίδια λάθη.
Why is προϊστάμενος used here, and what exactly does it mean grammatically?
προϊστάμενος means supervisor / manager / person in charge.
Grammatically, it is a masculine singular nominative form, because it is the subject of the sentence: Ο προϊστάμενος προτιμά... = The supervisor prefers...
It originally comes from a participial form of the verb προΐσταμαι (to be in charge of / to head), but in modern Greek it is very commonly used as a normal noun.
Related forms:
- ο προϊστάμενος = the male supervisor
- η προϊσταμένη = the female supervisor
How do you pronounce προϊστάμενος, and why does it have the two dots over ϊ?
The two dots over ϊ are called a diaeresis. They show that the ι is pronounced as a separate vowel, not merged with the previous vowel.
So προϊστάμενος is pronounced roughly as:
pro-i-STA-me-nos
not as one combined sound like prosta-...
The stress falls on στά.
This is common in Greek when the writer wants to show that two vowels belong to different syllables.
Why do we have να υπάρχει after προτιμά?