Questions & Answers about Το διαζύγιο ήταν δύσκολο.
Το is the definite article, meaning the. Greek uses the article very often, sometimes more often than English does. Here, το matches διαζύγιο, which is a neuter singular noun.
So το διαζύγιο = the divorce.
If you removed το, the sentence would usually sound incomplete or unnatural in normal Greek, unless you were speaking in a very special style such as headlines or notes.
Διαζύγιο is neuter. In Greek, every noun has a grammatical gender: masculine, feminine, or neuter.
You usually learn a noun together with its article:
- ο for masculine
- η for feminine
- το for neuter
So the vocabulary item is best learned as το διαζύγιο.
Its gender is grammatical, not biological. A noun like divorce does not have natural sex, but Greek still assigns it a grammatical gender, and here that gender is neuter.
It is nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence.
In Το διαζύγιο ήταν δύσκολο, the thing that was difficult is the divorce, so το διαζύγιο is the subject.
For this noun, the nominative and accusative singular look the same, so the form itself does not change here. You understand its role from the sentence structure and meaning.