"They bring their dog."
Translation:Αυτοί φέρνουν τον σκύλο τους.
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As I understand it, the modern rules always have τον for the masculine accusative article, to avoid confusion with the neuter article το, while older rules allowed for the final nu to be dropped before certain consonants as is possible e.g. with την.
So το σκύλο τους is outdated spelling and τον σκύλο τους modern.
This course should probably teach only τον σκύλο τους; I'll try to modify this at least in the English-to-Greek direction. (The Greek-to-English sentences can't be changed at the moment, I believe.)
Edit: I couldn't remove το σκύλο τους from the "best" translation in the E-to-G direction but I've tried to move it further to the end, so it should now pick up τον σκύλο τους by default (while still accepting το σκύλο τους).
Is ' αυτά φέρνω τον σκύλο τους ' completely wrong? I tried to start with the neuter. Isn't the first word I chose (at least that one) neuter? In English it's all neuter. (Well...except for 'dog,' but no one uses the feminine for it in English, anyway...in "polite conversation," that is.)
των is the genitive plural of the definite article, but τους is (in standard modern Greek) the genitive for the third-person plural personal pronoun and thus also the form used as a possessive marker. It happens to look the same as the accusative of the masculine (but not feminine or neuter) third-person plural pronoun.
https://sun9-56.userapi.com/c204628/v204628559/21cc/hLYpKE7e65E.jpg https://sun9-28.userapi.com/c206620/v206620559/20eb/MzlSGWfrhDU.jpg Same sentence, but one with "τον", while another with "το". Could someone explane the difference?
Assuming "They" are all women, wouldn't it be "Αυτές.."?
and would it then be ".. της." or what?
It would still be τους -- there are no separate masculine/feminine/neuter possessives in the plural.
Also, isn't "το σκύλο" correct?
Not according to the spelling that's currently taught in schools, which has τον always for masculine nominative.
The spelling that I learned would have used το σκύλο.
έγραψα "αυτες φέρνουν τον σκύλο τις", και νομίζω οτι είναι σωστο !
τις is the accusative short form, but you need the genitive short form for possession, which is τους for all forms of the plural -- masculine, feminine, or neuter.
τους δίνω can mean δίνω σ' αυτούς, δίνω σ' αυτές, δίνω σ' αυτά
τον σκύλο τους can mean τον σκύλο που ανήκει σ' αυτούς/αυτές/αυτά.
See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82#Related_terms and open up the table there and look at the intersection of "plural, weak" and "genitive".
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