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Learn Hardcore Greek: Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος. - The lyric is beautiful.

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/Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος.

Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος.

Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος.

The lyric is beautiful.

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Questions & Answers about Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος.

What does ο mean here?

Ο is the masculine singular form of the definite article, so here it means the.

It matches στίχος, which is a masculine singular noun. Greek articles change form depending on gender, number, and case.

Why is στίχος used with ο?

Because στίχος is a masculine singular noun in the nominative case here, and the matching definite article is ο.

Greek articles must agree with the noun, so you cannot just use any form of the.

Why does όμορφος also end in -ος?

Because όμορφος is an adjective, and in Greek adjectives must agree with the noun they describe.

Since στίχος is masculine, singular, and nominative, the adjective also appears in the masculine singular nominative form:

ο στίχος είναι όμορφος = masculine
η μελωδία είναι όμορφη = feminine
το τραγούδι είναι όμορφο = neuter

So the -ος ending here shows agreement, not just dictionary form.

Why is είναι used here?

Είναι is the present-tense form of είμαι, which means to be.

In this sentence it means is:

Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος = The verse/line is beautiful

A useful thing to remember is that είναι is used for both:

he/she/it is
they are

So Greek does not distinguish those two in this form.

What do the accent marks mean in στίχος, είναι, and όμορφος?

The accent marks show which syllable is stressed.

στίχος → stress on στί-
είναι → stress on εί-
όμορφος → stress on ό-

Stress matters in Greek pronunciation, so the marks are important.

How is the sentence pronounced?

A rough pronunciation is:

o STÍ-hos Í-ne Ó-mor-fos

A more accurate phonetic guide is:

[o ˈstixos ˈine ˈomorfos]

A few notes:

χ in στίχος is not like English h. It is a throat sound, like the ch in Scottish loch or German Bach.
ει in είναι is pronounced like ee in see.

Why does the last letter of στίχος look different from the first σ?

Greek has two lowercase forms of sigma:

σ is used at the beginning or in the middle of a word
ς is used only at the end of a word

So in στίχος, the first sigma is σ and the final sigma is ς. They are the same letter.

Is the word order fixed in Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος?

This is the most neutral word order: subject + verb + adjective.

Greek word order is more flexible than English, so you could also say:

Όμορφος είναι ο στίχος

That would sound more emphatic, something like It is the verse that is beautiful or The verse is beautiful with extra focus on beautiful.

So the original sentence is the plain, standard order.

Do I have to use the article ο here?

If you mean the verse/the line, then yes, the article is normally used.

Greek uses the definite article very regularly. English sometimes leaves articles out where Greek would not.

Without ο, the sentence would usually sound unnatural in ordinary speech unless there were some special context.

Does όμορφος only describe people, like handsome, or can it describe things too?

It can definitely describe things too.

Όμορφος can mean beautiful, lovely, nice-looking, and it is very natural with objects, places, music, language, writing, and so on.

So Ο στίχος είναι όμορφος is perfectly natural Greek.

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