Το κορίτσι με τις φακίδες χαμογελάει κάθε φορά που τη βλέπω.

Because κορίτσι is grammatically neuter in Greek. Grammatical gender does not always match real-world sex.

So:

• το κορίτσι = neuter noun
• any article or adjective directly agreeing with κορίτσι will also be neuter

For example:

• το μικρό κορίτσι
• το όμορφο κορίτσι

This is similar to how some languages assign gender by grammar, not by biology.

This is a very common learner question.

Even though κορίτσι is grammatically neuter, Greek can use a pronoun that follows the person’s natural gender when the referent is human. Since the referent is a girl, τη = her is very natural.

So Greek is doing two different things:

• noun agreement: το κορίτσι because κορίτσι is a neuter noun
• personal reference: τη βλέπω because the speaker is thinking of the girl as female

You may also encounter neuter agreement in some contexts, but feminine pronouns are very common when speaking about a specific girl as a person.

It is in the accusative, because the preposition με takes the accusative in Modern Greek.

So:

• με = with
• τις = feminine plural accusative article
• φακίδες = freckles

That gives:

• με τις φακίδες

The noun form φακίδες looks the same in nominative and accusative plural, but the article shows the case:

• nominative plural: οι φακίδες
• accusative plural: τις φακίδες

Greek uses the definite article more often than English does.

Here, με τις φακίδες sounds like an identifying description of the girl: the girl known by her freckles, or the freckled girl.

A Greek speaker could also say με φακίδες, depending on style and context, but με τις φακίδες is very natural when the freckles help identify which girl is being talked about.

So the article does not always have to be translated literally into English.

Because Greek normally talks about freckles in the plural, just as English usually does.

So:

• φακίδα = a freckle
• φακίδες = freckles

Since the sentence describes someone by that feature in general, the plural is the natural choice.

Χαμογελάει is the 3rd person singular present form of χαμογελώ / χαμογελάω, meaning the form used for he/she/it smiles or is smiling.

Here it matches the subject:

• Το κορίτσι ... χαμογελάει

So the subject is singular, and the verb is singular too.

Yes. Both χαμογελάει and χαμογελά are used in Modern Greek.

This is common with verbs of this type:

• αγαπάει / αγαπά
• μιλάει / μιλά
• χαμογελάει / χαμογελά

In everyday Greek, both can sound natural. Χαμογελάει may sound a little fuller, while χαμογελά is a shorter contracted form.

It is a very common fixed expression meaning every time that or whenever.

Breakdown:

• κάθε = each / every
• φορά = time / occasion
• που = introduces the clause that follows

So literally it is something like:

• every occasion that ...

In natural English, you usually translate it as every time or whenever.

Here που is functioning as a subordinating word introducing the clause τη βλέπω.

It does not really mean who or which here. In this sentence, it is closer to when or that in the structure every time that/when I see her.

Greek που is very flexible and can do several jobs depending on context:

• relative word: the man who...
• complementizer: I know that...
• clause linker in time expressions: κάθε φορά που...

So in this sentence, it is part of the time expression.

Because unstressed object pronouns in Greek usually come before a finite verb.

So Greek says:

• τη βλέπω
• τον ξέρω
• τους περιμένω

This is different from English, where the object pronoun usually comes after the verb:

• I see her

A useful exception to remember:

• with imperatives, the pronoun usually comes after: Δες τη

They are the same pronoun. The difference is the final -ν.

In Modern Greek, the final -ν of words like την, τον, έναν is often dropped before many consonants:

• τη βλέπω
• τον ξέρω

It is usually kept before vowels and certain consonants for smoother pronunciation or clarity:

• την αγαπώ
• τον πατέρα
• την ξέρω

So τη βλέπω is completely normal.

Because the sentence describes a habitual, repeated action.

The idea is not one single event, but a pattern:

• whenever this happens, she smiles

Greek commonly uses the present indicative for this kind of repeated situation:

• κάθε φορά που τη βλέπω

So βλέπω here means something like whenever I see her or every time I see her, not necessarily I am seeing her right now.

Often yes.

For example:

• Όποτε τη βλέπω, χαμογελάει.

This is very close in meaning to:

• Κάθε φορά που τη βλέπω, χαμογελάει.

The difference is mostly stylistic:

• κάθε φορά που is a little more explicit
• όποτε is more compact and often translates well as whenever

Both are common.

Yes. Greek word order is more flexible than English, as long as the grammar is clear.

For example, you can also say:

• Κάθε φορά που τη βλέπω, το κορίτσι με τις φακίδες χαμογελάει.

That sounds perfectly natural too.

What usually does not change in a neutral sentence is the position of the unstressed object pronoun:

• τη βλέπω, not normally βλέπω τη in this structure

So Greek allows movement of larger sentence parts more easily than English, but clitic pronouns still follow their own placement rules.