Το μαλλί μου είναι ακόμα βρεγμένο από το ντους.

to be

Breakdown of Το μαλλί μου είναι ακόμα βρεγμένο από το ντους.

• μου: my
• από: from
• ακόμα: still

Questions & Answers about Το μαλλί μου είναι ακόμα βρεγμένο από το ντους.

Does μαλλί really mean hair? I thought it meant wool.

Yes. μαλλί can mean both hair and wool in Greek.

Context tells you which one is meant:

• το μαλλί μου
  • βρεγμένο από το ντους clearly means my hair
• in other contexts, μαλλί can mean wool as a material

So this is one of those words whose meaning depends strongly on the situation.

Why is it το μαλλί μου and not τα μαλλιά μου?

Greek can talk about hair in two ways:

• το μαλλί μου = my hair, seen as one mass / overall hair
• τα μαλλιά μου = my hair, seen as plural hairs

Both are possible. For a person's hair, many learners will hear τα μαλλιά μου very often, and Τα μαλλιά μου είναι ακόμα βρεγμένα is a very natural alternative.

So the sentence is not wrong; it is just using the singular collective idea of hair.

Why is there a definite article, το, in front of μαλλί μου? English just says my hair.

Because Greek normally keeps the definite article with possessed nouns.

So Greek says:

• το μαλλί μου = literally the hair my
• το σπίτι μου = my house
• η αδερφή μου = my sister

This is completely normal Greek structure. The article does not disappear just because you have μου.

Why does μου come after the noun?