Η ταινία έχει πολλή δράση.

Η is the feminine singular definite article, meaning the. It is used because ταινία is a feminine singular noun.

It is capitalized here only because it is the first word of the sentence. In the middle of a sentence, it would normally be written η.

Ταινία is the subject of the sentence. It is a feminine singular noun, and that is why it takes the article η and why the verb is in the 3rd person singular form.

So grammatically:

• Η ταινία = the subject
• έχει = the verb
• πολλή δράση = the object / what the movie has

Έχει is the 3rd person singular present tense of έχω, meaning to have.

So:

• έχω = I have
• έχεις = you have
• έχει = he/she/it has

Here it matches η ταινία, which is singular, so έχει means has.

Because πολλή agrees with δράση, which is a feminine singular noun.

In this sentence, πολλή means a lot of / much, and it must match the noun grammatically:

• masculine: πολύς
• feminine: πολλή
• neuter: πολύ

Since δράση is feminine, Greek uses πολλή δράση.

A very common learner confusion is that πολύ also exists as an adverb meaning very or much. But here you need the feminine form πολλή, not the adverb.

Greek often leaves out the article with abstract or mass nouns after words like πολλή.

So πολλή δράση means a lot of action, not a lot of the action.

If you added an article, it would sound more specific, as if you were talking about some particular action already known from the context.

It is in the accusative singular because it is the direct object of έχει.

However, with many feminine nouns ending in -η, the nominative and accusative look the same in the singular. So δράση does not visibly change here, even though its role in the sentence is different.

No. In this sentence, δράση is being used like an uncountable or abstract noun, similar to English action in The movie has a lot of action.

That is why πολλή works well here.

If you wanted something countable, you would usually use a plural noun instead, for example:

• πολλές σκηνές δράσης = many action scenes

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

The neutral order here is:

• Η ταινία έχει πολλή δράση.

But Greek can move things around for emphasis, for example:

• Πολλή δράση έχει η ταινία.

This still means the same basic thing, but it puts more emphasis on πολλή δράση.

A rough pronunciation is:

i te-NYA E-hi po-LI DRA-si

More precisely:

• Η sounds like ee
• ταινία is stressed on -νί-
• έχει is stressed on the first syllable
• πολλή is stressed on the last syllable
• δράση is stressed on the first syllable

A few sound notes:

• αι in ταινία sounds like e
• χ in έχει is not like English ch; before e/i it is a softer sound, somewhat like the h in huge for some speakers, or the German ich sound
• δρ in δράση begins with the Greek δ, which in Modern Greek sounds like th in this

The accent marks show which syllable is stressed.

In this sentence:

• ταινία → stress on νί
• έχει → stress on έ
• πολλή → stress on λή
• δράση → stress on δρά

Stress is important in Greek, both for pronunciation and for correct spelling.

Not necessarily.

Η ταινία έχει πολλή δράση means the movie has a lot of action. That describes the content.

It does not automatically mean the movie belongs to the action genre.

If you want to say It is an action movie, Greek would more naturally say something like:

• Η ταινία είναι ταινία δράσης.

So the original sentence is about how much action the movie contains, not strictly its genre label.