Το παιδί έδειξε ταλέντο νωρίς.

Yes, παιδί means child, and in Greek it is grammatically neuter no matter whether the child is a boy or a girl.

So:

• το παιδί = the child
• the article το is neuter singular
• the noun παιδί is also neuter singular

This is a very common thing in Greek: grammatical gender does not always match biological sex.

It is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the sentence — the one doing the action.

In Το παιδί έδειξε ταλέντο νωρίς, the child is the one who showed something, so το παιδί is nominative.

Έδειξε is the aorist (simple past/perfective past) form of the verb δείχνω (to show).

Here it is:

• δείχνω = I show / I am showing
• έδειξε = he/she/it showed

So το παιδί έδειξε means the child showed.

The aorist is used here because the sentence presents the action as a complete event or fact.

That έ- is called the augment, which often appears in past-tense forms in Greek, especially in the aorist and imperfect.

So:

• δείχνω → present
• έδειξα / έδειξε → past

You do not need to translate the έ- by itself; it is just part of how many Greek past forms are built.

This is about the difference between aorist and imperfect.

• έδειξε = showed / demonstrated (a complete event, a simple fact)
• έδειχνε = was showing / used to show (ongoing, repeated, or descriptive in the past)

In this sentence, Το παιδί έδειξε ταλέντο νωρίς, the idea is that the child showed talent early on — a fact about when that became apparent. That is why the aorist έδειξε is natural.

Ταλέντο is in the accusative singular because it is the direct object of έδειξε — it is what the child showed.

It looks the same as the dictionary form because ταλέντο is a neuter noun, and for many neuter nouns:

• nominative singular = ταλέντο
• accusative singular = ταλέντο

So the form does not change here.

Greek often leaves out the article when speaking in a more general sense.

So:

• έδειξε ταλέντο = showed talent
• έδειξε το ταλέντο του/της = showed his/her talent
• έδειξε το ταλέντο could sound more specific, depending on context

In this sentence, ταλέντο is meant in a general sense, so no article is very natural.

Νωρίς means early, and it is an adverb.

It describes when the action happened:

• έδειξε ταλέντο νωρίς = showed talent early

As an adverb, νωρίς does not change form for gender, number, or case.

Yes. Greek word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral order here is:

• Το παιδί έδειξε ταλέντο νωρίς.

But other orders are possible for emphasis, for example:

• Νωρίς το παιδί έδειξε ταλέντο.
• Ταλέντο έδειξε νωρίς το παιδί.

These are more marked and depend on what the speaker wants to emphasize. For a learner, the original sentence is the most straightforward and natural version.

A simple pronunciation guide would be:

• Το παιδί ≈ to peh-THEE
• έδειξε ≈ EH-thik-seh (in standard modern pronunciation, δ sounds like th in this)
• ταλέντο ≈ ta-LEN-do
• νωρίς ≈ no-REES

The stressed syllables are:

• παιδί
• έδειξε
• ταλέντο
• νωρίς

Yes. Παιδί can often mean either child or kid, depending on tone and context.

So this sentence could be understood as:

• The child showed talent early.
• The kid showed talent early.

If the translation you were given uses child, that is the more neutral choice, but kid is also possible in many contexts.