Noun declension – Neuters ΙI

After more than a week  and feeling that I left unfinished my last post about Modern Greek Nouns, today I decided to complete it…There are two days that I am in Piešťany city, in Slovakia for an Esperanto meeting. It is first time in my life that I take part in an Esperanto event and it is quite surprising, because almost all  day we are using  Esperanto in our communication…but this is the subject of another post on which I hope soon to come upon.

Now , on our previous post about nouns we examined isosyllava neuter nouns. So, today we are going to present the anisosyllava of the same gender.

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We encounter  3 sub-categories of anisosyllava neuter nouns in Modern Greek:

• In the first subcategory are those ones ending in -μα. Such words are το σώμα (body), το βήμα (pace) , το γράμμα (letter), το δέμα  (parcel) etc. Let’s decline the word το γράμμα

Nominative	Genitive	Accusative	Vocative
το γράμμα	του γράμματος	το γράμμα	γράμμα
τα γράμματα	των γραμμάτων	τα γράμματα	γράμματα

In the second subcategory belong these ending in -σίμο (-ξίμο, ψίμο), as the words το δέσιμο , το βάψιμο, το φέρσιμο (behaviour) , το τρέξιμο (the act of running), το γλύψιμο ..Let’s take the word το φέρσιμο (the behavior) p.e.

Nominative	Genitive	Accusative	Vocative
το φέρσιμο	του φερσίματος	το φέρσιμο	φέρσιμο
τα φερσίματα	των φερσιμάτων	τα φερσίματα	φερσίματα

In the 3d and last subcategory of anisosyllava neuters belong the ones ending in -ας, -ως, like το πέρας, το τέρας, το φως (the light), το καθεστώς (the regime)…

Nominative	Genitive	Accusative	Vocative
το πέρας	του πέρατος	το πέρας	πέρας
τα πέρατα	των περάτων	τα πέρατα	πέρατα

Nominative	Genitive	Accusative	Vocative
το φως	του φωτός	το φως	φως
τα φώτα	των φώτων	τα φώτα	φώτα

Summarising we can notice that in each number all neuters have three declensions similar: Nominative , Accusative and Vocative …Plus, the anisosyllava neuters in the Genitive of the Plural are all accented on the penultimate syllable, p.e. των κυμάτων , των δεσιμάτων , των φώτων etc.
Also the Genitive of all neuters in the Plural is ending in -ων.

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