5 Greek expressions with Verbs to sound like a Native

I eat money

I eat wood!

I make money – I take a photo!

I’m sure you know all the words separately!

But what can they mean as a undivided expression?

Hello my dears, Welcome back to my channel!

I’m Alexandra and I’m the teacher of ”Do you speak greek”!

Today we will learn 5 descriptive verbs

They are expressions that consist of a verb and a noun usually in accusative.

And while we know what the verb and the noun mean separately

when they are together they usually do not make sense.

There are several such expressions in Greek, so pay attention to today’s lesson!

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”I eat wood ”. I’m sure you know that expression.

It literally means: I take the wood, chew it and swallow it

But normally it means that someone beats me, I’ve been beaten

Usually Greek mothers say it to their children!

Behave because I ‘ll beat you!!

Using the same verb there is the expression “I eat money” which means I spend money

For example: This month I ate all my money,

that is, I spent it.

Another prhase with the word ”money ” but with a different verb : I make money

So the verb ” take out ΄΄ literally means I remove something or I move something from inside out

For example: Every morning I take out the blankets on the balcony

I mean I take the blankets and move them out on the balcony

From the pizza I always take out the bacon . That is, I remove the bacon from the pizza.

So what does it mean to make money? Making money means:

I earn money, that is, I work and get paid.

Sofia makes a lot of money at the hair salon.

However, this phrase is also used literally

that is, I move the money from the bank to my pocket!

And of course another expression with “I take out” is: I take a picture,

which means I take pictures. For example:

I do not like to take many pictures

The next verb is the verb “I put”

which is the opposite of the verb “I take out” ‘and it means” I place ”

So here I have 2 expressions:

I put a hand that means I help

For example: Will you put a hand to move the bed?

And the next sentence is: I put the laughs or cries

that mean I laugh, usually ironically or I cry. For example:

He laughed as soon as he heard the offer.

That is, the offer was not good at all and so it made him laugh ironically

The baby cried, that is, the baby started crying!

Ok! And let’s go to the 4th phrase.

Here we will use the verb “I do”.

Generally the verb “I do” is used in many expressions, but today we will see one of them.

I pretend !

crooked is something that is not straight or we say it for our eyes,

when we do not see well, on a very informal level.

“I roll my eyes” means that I pretend

not to see or hear something,

which is usually bad.

That is, I pretend I do not understand

For example: The student did not do the exercises

but the teacher rolled his eyes (pretended he doesn’t know).

That is, the teacher pretended not to understand or did not remember.

So let’s go to the last sentence which is the most difficult!

Here I will use the verb ‘go down’ ‘I

go down means I walk, I move down

So when we say that someone goes down in the elections

We mean that he is running in the elections, that we can vote for him!

For example: Mr. Papadopoulos is running as a candidate in the elections!

Well, those were the my expressions! Writedown in the comments if you knew them

and I would also like you to write an example with them!

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