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κοριτσία
girls /koˈɾitsʝa/
nounC1#3464 most common
Also: young women (casual address)
Example sentences
Τα κορίτσια παίζουν στην αυλή.
The girls are playing in the yard.
Τα κορίτσια πηγαίνουν σχολείο κάθε πρωί.
The girls go to school every morning.
Τα κορίτσια της τάξης μου είναι πολύ έξυπνα.
The girls in my class are very smart.
Πολλά κορίτσια σήμερα ασχολούνται με τον αθλητισμό.
Many girls today take part in sports.
Τα κορίτσια εκείνης της εποχής δεν είχαν πρόσβαση στην εκπαίδευση.
The girls of that era had no access to education.
Η κοινωνική θέση των κοριτσιών έχει αλλάξει ριζικά τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες.
The social standing of girls has changed radically in recent decades.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | κορίτσι | κορίτσια |
| Genitive | κοριτσιού | κοριτσιών |
| Accusative | κορίτσι | κορίτσια |
| Vocative | κορίτσι | κορίτσια |
Word family
Etymology
Κοριτσία is the plural of κορίτσι, a diminutive of the ancient noun κόρη, meaning girl or maiden (the same word used as a title for Persephone, Kore). The diminutive suffix -ίτσι was added to κόρη, and modern Greek then formed the neuter plural κοριτσία from that diminutive. Scholars are not fully agreed on where κόρη itself comes from, and some argue it predates Indo-European Greek as a substrate word, so no secure root is given here.
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