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Learn phrases in the Greek language by selecting the phrases that you want to learn from the list on the right.

These cover a wide variety of Greek topics, including the numbers in Greek, days of the week in Greek, Greek greetings and the months in Greek. The Greek phrases have audio recorded by a native speaker.

Greek language learning games

As well as the flashcards for the Greek phrases on the right, there are additional learning games for colours, days, fruit, months, numbers and vegetables.

Test whether you know the difference between a μπανάνα, δαμάσκηνο, ντομάτα and μαρούλι, can count from ένα to δέκα and know μαύρο from άσπρο.

Greek is written using the Greek alphabet (of 24 letters descended from the Phoenician alphabet).

The words and phrases on SurfaceLanguages are written using the Greek script and also in a romanized version. This attempts to match the sounds of the Greek alphabet as closely as possible to those of the Roman alphabet.

The Greek alphabet is phonetic and straight-forward to learn. Learn the Greek Alphabet

Greek

Greek is spoken by the 12 million inhabitants of Greece and Cyprus. It belongs to an independent branch of the indo-European language family. The history of the language can be traced from Proto-Greek, an assumed theoretical language from which all dialects of Greek are descended, via Mycenaean and Ancient Greek to the Demotic or Standard Modern Greek as is spoken in Greece today.

The Greek language

Greek nouns have gender and can be masculine, feminine or neuter. The definite articles for masculine, feminine and neuter nouns are o, ή and τo respectively (in the nominative case). The man 'άντρας', the woman 'ή γυναίκα' are examples of masculine and feminine nouns (in the nominative). Nouns decline and can be either nominative, vocative, accusative or genitive. Definite and indefinite articles decline. (The indefinite article exists only in the singular).

Adjectives decline and vary according to the noun described. Many adjectives (in the nominative) end in -o if the word is masculine, -η if it is feminine and -o if it is neuter.