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Learn Hardcore Greek: Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο. - The chorus is easy.

Hardcore Greek
/Seeing a band live
/Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

The chorus is easy.

Breakdown of Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

το ρεφρέν

chorus; refrain

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Questions & Answers about Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

What does each word in Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο do?

Το = the definite article, neuter singular
ρεφρέν = chorus / refrain
είναι = is
εύκολο = easy, in the neuter singular form

So grammatically, it is:

[subject] Το ρεφρέν + [verb] είναι + [predicate adjective] εύκολο

Why is there a το at the beginning?

Το means the. Greek uses the definite article very regularly, often more than English does.

So:

Το ρεφρέν = the chorus / the refrain
Ρεφρέν by itself can appear in special contexts, but in a normal sentence like this, το is the natural choice.

Why is ρεφρέν neuter?

Because ρεφρέν is a neuter noun in Greek. Grammatical gender in Greek does not always match any real-world idea of natural gender. Many inanimate nouns are masculine, feminine, or neuter simply because that is how the language classifies them.

A useful thing to notice is that ρεφρέν is a loanword, and words like this are often treated as neuter in Greek.

That is why you get:

το ρεφρέν
εύκολο to match it

Why is it εύκολο and not εύκολος or εύκολη?

Because adjectives must agree with the noun they describe.

Since ρεφρέν is neuter singular, the adjective must also be neuter singular:

masculine: εύκολος
feminine: εύκολη
neuter: εύκολο

So:

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο. = correct

Compare:

Ο στίχος είναι εύκολος. = The lyric/verse is easy.
Η μελωδία είναι εύκολη. = The melody is easy.

What exactly is είναι?

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

Here it means is.

A detail learners often notice: είναι is used for both:

he/she/it is
they are

So:

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο. = The chorus is easy.
Τα ρεφρέν είναι εύκολα. = The choruses are easy.

The verb stays είναι in both sentences.

How do you pronounce the sentence?

A simple guide is:

To refrén íne éfkolo

A few key pronunciation points:

ρεφρέν is stressed on the last syllable: re-FREN
είναι is usually pronounced roughly EE-ne or I-ne, with the stress on the first part
In εύκολο, the ευ sounds like ef here, because it comes before κ, a voiceless consonant

So εύκολο sounds like EF-ko-lo.

Why is εύκολο after the verb instead of before the noun?

Because here εύκολο is not directly attached to the noun inside the noun phrase. It is a predicate adjective after είναι.

So:

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο = The chorus is easy.

If you put the adjective directly with the noun, you get a different structure:

το εύκολο ρεφρέν = the easy chorus

That is not a full sentence by itself; it is just a noun phrase.

Is the word order fixed?

No. Greek word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral, straightforward order is:

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

But you may also hear:

Είναι εύκολο το ρεφρέν.
Εύκολο είναι το ρεφρέν.

These can shift the emphasis slightly, but the basic meaning stays the same. For a learner, the original order is the safest and most neutral one.

Do I need a word for it, like in It is easy?

No, not in this sentence.

English often uses pronouns like it, but Greek does not need a separate dummy subject here. The actual subject is already present:

Το ρεφρέν = the subject
είναι = is
εύκολο = easy

So Greek simply says:

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

What case is το ρεφρέν in, and what case is εύκολο?

Το ρεφρέν is in the nominative, because it is the subject of the sentence.

εύκολο is also in the nominative, because after είναι Greek normally uses a predicate adjective that agrees with the subject in gender, number, and case.

So both are:

neuter
singular
nominative

That agreement is why the sentence looks so neat and regular:

Το ρεφρέν είναι εύκολο.

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