ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΌ ευχαριστό / eff-(ch)ar-eess-TOE / thank you
OK back to the Greek lessons. I retained basically none of the Greek words I learned besides this and kalimera/kalispera so we starting fresh!
Oh and portokalo.
Oh and maybe kotopoulo.
Hello, please, and thank you are the base phrases I feel like you should learn for any new destination. Even if you then are going to try and rely on others to speak English to get bare essentials, at least meet them at the front door of their own language. So I’ll start with those since they aren’t quiet as commonplace (in my mind) as the Spanish or French words for those things.
Evidently the stress on the last syllable is important — if you stress the second (eff-CHAR-eestoe) or the third (effchar-EESS-toe) are the adjective (thankful) and adverb (thankfully) forms. Language is neet.
Oh and pentakosio. If I need five hundred chickens or oranges I’m set.