Dates
The month names you saw on the previous page were given in the nominative, or subject form. It's the form you'd use in a sentence like, “February is the shortest month.”
When you give a date in English, though, you use a phrase like “the sixth of March.” In Greek, as in English, you use a possessive, or genitive form of the month. Here are the months again, in their possessive form. Note that the accent shifts to the next to last syllable in all the months.
| Ιανουαρίου | Ιουλίου |
| Φεβρουαρίου | Αυγούστου |
| Μαρτίου | Σεπτεμβρίου |
| Απριλίου | Οκτωβρίου |
| Μαΐου | Νοεμβρίου |
| Ιουνίου | Δεκεμβρίου |
Unlike English, Greek uses the cardinal number rather than the ordinal number. That is, rather than “the sixth of March” they say “six of March”, which comes out to:
έξι Μαρτίου
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