Το κοινό ζητάει μπιζ.

Here το κοινό means the audience.

Literally, κοινό is an adjective meaning common or general, but it is also very commonly used as a noun: the public / the audience.

It is neuter singular because Greek often uses the singular for collective nouns. So even though an audience is made up of many people, Greek treats το κοινό as one group.

• το κοινό = the audience / the public

This is very natural Greek.

Greek uses the definite article much more often than English does.

So το κοινό is the normal way to say the audience. In this sentence, the speaker is referring to a specific audience, so the article is expected.

Compare:

• κοινό = audience/public in a more general or dictionary-like sense
• το κοινό = the audience

In real sentences, Greek usually prefers the full form with the article.

ζητάει is:

• present tense
• 3rd person singular
• from the verb ζητάω / ζητώ = to ask for, request, seek

So Το κοινό ζητάει μπιζ means:

• The audience is asking for an encore
• or more literally, The audience asks for bis

Because το κοινό is singular, the verb is also singular: ζητάει.

Both ζητάει and ζητά are correct.

They are just two common present-tense forms of the same verb. In everyday Greek, many verbs in -άω can appear in two variants:

• ζητάω / ζητάς / ζητάει
• ζητώ / ζητάς / ζητά

So:

• Το κοινό ζητάει μπιζ
• Το κοινό ζητά μπιζ

Both are natural.
ζητάει may sound a little fuller or slightly more conversational to some speakers, but both are standard.

μπιζ is a borrowing, used in Greek to mean an encore.

It comes from the word bis, which in performance contexts means again. In Greek it is written phonetically as μπιζ.

So when the audience shouts or asks for μπιζ, they want the performer to come back and perform again.

It is a somewhat theatrical or performance-related word, not an ordinary everyday noun in all contexts.

In Modern Greek, μπ is commonly used to represent a b sound, especially in loanwords.

So:

• μπ = often sounds like b
• ι = i
• ζ = z

That gives μπιζ, pronounced roughly like beez.

This is a normal way for Greek to adapt foreign words.

In this sentence, μπιζ behaves like an indeclinable borrowed word, meaning it stays the same rather than changing endings like many native Greek nouns do.

So Greek speakers simply use it as a fixed form after the verb:

• ζητάει μπιζ

Learners do not usually need to memorize a whole declension for this word.

After a verb like ζητάω (ask for), Greek often uses the object without an article when the speaker means the thing in a general sense.

So:

• ζητάει μπιζ = asks for an encore

Using no article here sounds natural.

If an article were added, it could sound more specific or less idiomatic depending on context. In this performance expression, the article is normally omitted.

Greek word order is more flexible than English word order, because the endings give a lot of grammatical information.

The neutral, straightforward order here is:

• Το κοινό ζητάει μπιζ.

You could change the order for emphasis, for example:

• Μπιζ ζητάει το κοινό.

That would put extra focus on μπιζ, almost like It’s an encore the audience wants.

So the original sentence is the most neutral and natural version for simple statement style.

A simple pronunciation guide would be:

• Το κοινό ζητάει μπιζ
• to kee-NO zee-TA-ee beez

A few notes:

• κοινό has the stress on the last syllable: κοι-νό
• ζητάει has the stress on τά
• μπιζ sounds like beez

The sentence rhythm is fairly smooth, with the main stress points on -νό, -τά-, and μπιζ.

It is a normal sentence, but the word μπιζ makes it clearly belong to a performance context: theatre, concert, recital, and so on.

So grammatically the sentence is neutral, but vocabulary-wise it is tied to the idea of an audience wanting more from performers.

In other contexts, Greek would usually use different wording for ask again or want more.