How would you call someone love in greek?

Question

How would you call someone love in greek?

Answer 1

no Ellas is all the way right. the pronounciation is right too. Asimenia is wrong.

Answer 2

The Greek word erota means in love, but there are many diffrent words for it depending on how you mean.

Answer 3

Since I am not a native Greek speaker, I can't shed too much light on exactly how to pronounce the 'gamma'. However, I PROMISE you that it sounds absolutely nothing like the w in wolf. I describe it almost as a softer g than gift, but not quite a y sound.

Answer 4

No, I too am Greek and I think that Asimenia is correct here. W in wolf is not γ, it doesn't sound like one at all. You pronounce W from the back of your throat and your tongue doesn't touch your palate in the same way that it does when you pronounce γ, that's what I understand when I pronounce the two. They're different.

Answer 5

i love you but in the greek form thats how

Answer 6

Actually neither Ellas nor Asimenia are exactly right

the letter gama has a very weird prommumciation for the foreigner and its maybe the only letter that a non-Greek can pronnounce well,many non-natives can be diferented from the native by that.

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The  sound is somewhere between the English hard ‘g’ (as in gum) and ‘y’ (as in year).  Notice that the only difference for the mechanics of the throat to produce these two sounds is the position of the tongue to the throat.  For ‘y’ the tongue stays away from the throat, but for ‘g’ it touches and briefly seals off the airflow.  Because the air stops I call

this sound the hard ‘g’.  The Greek Gamma does not have such a hard sound.

The tongue moves up as if to touch the throat but doesn't.  The mechanics

are the same for gargling water or for gurgling like a baby.  In order to

gargle the tongue cannot shut off the throat, but it must remain close or

else you will choke on whatever is being gargled.  Thus to make the sound of

Gamma preceding any other sound than /i/ or /e/ sounds gargle it, but remove

the bubbling action.  If the sound goes through your nose, that is fine.

By the way you can say Agapi

Answer 7

A lot of right answers here (and some wrong).

The letter Gamma is pronounced as the letter Y in "yellow" but you pronounce it like pop corn is stuck in your throat...LOL

Answer 8

Ellas is correct - her pronounciation is wrong!

Agapi mou -  'ag' like in Agatha

awa- po?????? I don't know how you pronounce wolf but the w I use is wo!  g is gamma which is 'gh'  a - wo - po ... must try it out of the children and hubby - and let them know they are pronouncing it wrong according to a Greek American!

My kids love to sing Agapo Agapo mia pitsirika - won't sound the same Awopo - Awopo (they'll sound like they have a speech problem)  to make a 'wo sound our lips must come together in a kiss shape to make the Γ sound the sound comes from the back of the throat with a flat tongue and lips apart - if I am wrong explain how to form my mouth!

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AWOPI MOU

I stand by what I say - try forming the word wolf - my daughter's standing behind me and I have asked to say both words - her mouth does not form the same shape NOR sound! Maybe you are saying wolf wrong! - sure you are not using a German accent? wolf pronounced in British English is something like wool f (wool as in the thing we make pullovers out of)

Answer 9

Trust Ellas.!!!Asimenia you are wrong,Agatha is -γκ-but agapi is pronaounsed  as wolf which is -γ-. Yia sou.

Answer 10

agapi mou.....the "g" in agapi is pronounced like the w in wolf

Answer 11

I know exactly what "gamma" sounds like, but unfortunately I can't pronounce it very well, since that sound doesn't exist in my language. I would rather use the normal "g" than "w" or "y" like some people said, since these English sounds are completely different.

Of course, in some cases it does sound like English "y", for example geia sou = yasou.

Answer 12

It's difficult to describe how the g/γ is pronounced as there isn't an equivalent in English. Someone once told me that it is pronounced like the 'R' in 'window'!!!

Answer 13

You will call him/her " agapi mou/αγάπη μου "

g like the letter y in the word yellow