Αν δεν βρεις το τηλεχειριστήριο, κλείσε την τηλεόραση από το κουμπί και έλα να φάμε.

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Breakdown of Αν δεν βρεις το τηλεχειριστήριο, κλείσε την τηλεόραση από το κουμπί και έλα να φάμε.

• τρώω: to eat
• δεν: not
• να: to

Questions & Answers about Αν δεν βρεις το τηλεχειριστήριο, κλείσε την τηλεόραση από το κουμπί και έλα να φάμε.

Why is it βρεις instead of βρίσκεις?

Because βρεις fits a one-time, future/possible condition: if you don't find the remote in this situation.

A helpful way to think of it:

• αν δεν βρεις = if you don't manage to find it
• αν δεν βρίσκεις = more like if you aren't finding it / if you generally don't find it

So βρεις is the natural choice when the speaker means one specific attempt, not a general habit.

Also, βρεις is not past tense here, even though it comes from the aorist stem. In this sentence it refers to a possible future result after αν.

Why is there no να after αν?

Because αν already introduces the conditional clause by itself.

Greek often uses the same kind of verb form after particles such as να, αν, όταν, etc., but you do not normally put να after αν here.

So:

• αν δεν βρεις = correct
• αν δεν να βρεις = incorrect

You can think of βρεις here as the form that αν requires.

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