Learn Modern Greek - Beginner to Advanced

Learn the basics of Greek greetings, including informal and formal forms, and the use of singular and plural pronouns and verbs, with our first conversation.

Learn to ask where someone is from in informal and formal Greek. Respond with I am from followed by the country, using common examples.

Learn Greek personal pronouns and the verb to be, including gendered forms and conjugation, with examples like I am, you are, we are, they are, and negation concepts.

Explore present-tense conjugation of Greek a-verbs, organized into five groups, with endings that change by subject and examples like do, want, know, live, have, go, and work.

Master the present tense conjugation of b1 verbs by keeping the root the same and changing endings for each person and number, with practical examples.

Learn the present-tense conjugation of B2 greek verbs, with stress at the end and endings for each person, plus examples like I can and I am late.

Master the present tense conjugation of AB verbs, including endings for each person. Practice with examples like I go, you go, we go, I eat, and I hear.

Master present tense conjugation of C verbs in Greek by learning person-by-person endings, with examples like I come, you come, he/she comes, we come, and they come.

Identify the three Greek noun genders—masculine, feminine, and neutral—and their articles, using noun endings to determine the correct article, and reinforce with practice examples.

This lesson explains how Greek nouns pluralize by changing articles and endings across masculine, feminine, and neutral nouns, shows adjective agreement, and offers examples for practice.

Review nominative and accusative Greek personal pronouns, including singular and plural forms across masculine, feminine, and neuter, and confirm they precede the verb.

Learn possessive pronouns in modern Greek with examples like my friends and our house, and note that determinants precede possessive pronouns while adjectives come after.

Learn to count in Greek from zero to twenty, with emphasis on forming 13–19 as ten plus the base number and noting the 11–12 exceptions, followed by practice.

Learn to count from 20 to 100 in Modern Greek using a tens-first pattern, starting with tens and a unit from 1 to 10, with examples like 39 and 98.

Learn to count in Greek from 100 to 1,000, review hundreds and thousands, and practice forming complex numbers with real-world examples.

Learn to count from 8000 to 10000 in Modern Greek, focusing on numbers in the thousands and practicing with examples from zero to ten thousand.

Learn how to form the Greek accusative case: article changes, noun endings, and when to use accusative versus nominative, including prepositions and time expressions with examples.

Master the accusative plural in Greek by learning how masculine, feminine, and neuter articles change and how noun endings remain or transform, with examples.

Acquire essential modern Greek vocabulary for travel, from professions and days to food, shopping, and culture, with over 2300 words and 800 verbs to practice conjugation.

Learn essential Greek vocabulary for professions and studies, with a dialogue on asking about jobs and fields of study, including doctor, teacher, economist, architect, lawyer, and engineer.

Explore the Greek days of the week, their ordinal forms, and weekend usage. Use example sentences with days and the article in front of each day to express plans.

Learn the months of the year in Greek, with dual translations per month and example sentences using the accusative case.

Explore the Greek family tree by learning terms for mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, uncle, cousin, wife, husband, in-laws, nephew, and grandchildren, with example sentences.

Learn how to talk about the weather in Greek, using weather verbs and adjectives to describe sunny, cloudy, windy, and rainy conditions, plus the seasons winter, spring, summer, and autumn.

Learn core Greek color vocabulary, including light and dark variants, with key color terms such as black, yellow, green, light blue, blue, brown, purple, and orange.

Explore essential home vocabulary in modern Greek, including kitchen, dining room, living room, office, bathroom, bedroom, garage, balcony, stairs, and toilet, and practice sentences like I live in an apartment.

Acquire essential Greek coffee shop vocabulary and ordering phrases, from cafeteria and menu to drinks like Greek coffee, espresso, cappuccino, freddo cappuccino, and freddo espresso, reflecting Greek culture.

Expand your Greek vocabulary with coffee shop terms and drink orders, including hot chocolate, orange juice, lemonade, Coca-Cola, sparkling water, milkshake, granita, slushy, and wine varieties, plus ouzo.

Expand your coffee shop vocabulary in Modern Greek, including drinks and foods like hot chocolate, sandwich, spanakopita, ice cream, yogurt with fruits, and practice ordering sentences.

Learn essential bakery vocabulary in Modern Greek, including common bakery words, bread varieties, and popular items like spanakopita, pizza, cheese pie, coffee, and fresh juice.

Learn essential supermarket vocabulary for dairy, cheese, milk, eggs, olive oil, salt, pasta, lentils, chickpeas, and beans, and practice polite requests such as 'I would like beans, please.'

Expand your modern Greek supermarket vocabulary from vegetables and fruits to fish, meat, and minced meat, plus items like detergents, toilet paper, napkins, and bread.

Learn Greek vocabulary for kiosks, the small shops on pedestrian roads, and practice soda, juice, beer, milk, tissues, chocolate, tobacco, ice cream, chewing gum, chips, cigarettes, newspapers, and magazines.

Build essential fruit vocabulary in Modern Greek, covering apples, bananas, oranges, mandarins, cherries, apricots, strawberries, watermelons, melons, kiwis, grapes, and lemons.

Learn essential vegetable vocabulary in Greek, including potato, carrot, zucchini, cabbage, onion, peppers, tomato, cucumber, eggplant, and broccoli, to build practical everyday language.

Learn essential Greek clothing vocabulary—from jackets and pullovers to jeans, shirts, dresses, underwear, swimsuits, and shoes—plus plural forms. This first lesson previews the next session.

Learn the second part of clothing vocabulary in modern Greek, covering sneakers, sandals, scarves, accessories, purses, wallets, belts, watches, glasses, sunglasses, hats, and clothing sizes.

Learn Christmas vocabulary in Greek, including greetings like Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and terms for decorating a Christmas tree, Christmas ornaments, and traditional honey cookies.

Explore essential Greek restaurant vocabulary, including appetizers, feta, tzatziki, greens dish such as horta, and Greek salads with cucumbers and tomatoes.

Expand restaurant vocabulary in Greek, including moussaka, souvlaki, lamb with potatoes, beef with red sauce, chicken with lemon sauce, grilled items, and carbonara.

Cover the final unit of restaurant vocabulary in Modern Greek, including seafood terms like sardines, anchovies, swordfish, octopus, calamari, and phrases to order and ask for the bill.

Learn Greek vocabulary for food sector occupations, including cook, chef, waiter, waitress, bar woman, pastry chef, cashier, and cleaner, across bars, restaurants, and pubs.

Learn essential Greek food and drink vocabulary, including restaurant, tavern, fish tavern, steakhouse, souvlaki restaurant, pizzeria, cafeteria, pastry shop, and ouzo.

Learn the most common Greek question words and how to form yes-no questions, using gender and number for 'who,' and practice with everyday examples.

Learn how to form the future tense in Greek for category a verbs by adding tha before the verb and replacing certain final consonants with sigma, with examples.

Explore the future tense for B1 and B2 verbs in three categories: common endings, altered endings with the same form, and four exceptional verbs. Practice with examples to conjugate confidently.

Learn future tense irregulars in Modern Greek, grouped by patterns: stay the same as present tense; change form; or form like B2 or B1 verbs; memorize by heart and practice.

Discover how Modern Greek cardinal numbers function as gendered adjectives, with one, three, and four changing by noun gender, while other numbers stay the same from 11 to 34.

Explore modern Greek ordinal numbers as adjectives that agree with gender, number, and case. Learn forms from 1st to 30th, including masculine, feminine, and neutral patterns, with memorization of changes.

Learn how the Greek verb 'to like' stays in third person singular while possessive pronouns change, and use its singular and plural conjugations to talk about what you like.

Learn how the Greek verb 'to must' expresses obligation with no full conjugation, using only the third person singular and the 'preppy' structure alongside examples like 'I have to eat'.

Master past tense for category a Greek verbs using future-based conjugation. Learn consonant changes, three-syllable minimum, and stress on the third last syllable, plus zeta to sigma shifts and exceptions.

Explore B1 and B2 Greek past tense verb conjugations, focusing on verbs ending with certain patterns, applying consistent rules from the future tense, with practical example conjugations.

Learn the conjugation of irregular Greek verbs in the past tense, organized into groups by patterns, with no universal rule and memorization required for fluency.

Explore the Greek imperative across three conjugation patterns, focusing on the second person singular and plural in present and future tense, with example sentences and tone guidance.

Learn the imperative for irregular Greek verbs by classifying them into three categories, showing stem and ending changes, with example sentences in singular and plural forms.

Explore the subjunctive mood, expressing wishes and intentions in future tense, with rules for starting sentences with no and conjugating verbs accordingly, plus common usage examples.

Explore the genitive in Modern Greek, learning how masculine, feminine, and neutral nouns change endings across nominative, accusative, and genitive, and how genitive expresses ownership.

Explore adverbs of frequency in Modern Greek and boost spoken fluency by placing adverbs next to verbs, with examples using always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, and never.

Learn how to form the negative imperative in Greek by starting from the subjunctive and replacing the negation, with singular and plural verb examples.

Learn to tell time in Greek, using vocabulary for hours, minutes, and quarters, with before and after expressions and examples like it is ten thirty and a quarter before eleven.

This lesson revisits telling time in Greek, covering hours, quarters, parts of the day, one and a half and three and a half, and Greek writing abbreviations for pm.

Master the Greek past continuous: conjugate all verb groups with proper endings and an extra epsilon for two-syllable verbs, and distinguish its repeated use from the past simple.

Master the future continuous in Greek by conjugating all verb groups with present-tense endings and a prefix, noting there are no irregular verbs, to express repeated or longer future actions.

Explore the continuous subjunctive, a present-tense based tense describing actions you permanently do. Learn its usage, examples, and how it marks ongoing, habitual Greek actions.

Master the Greek present perfect by learning how to conjugate verbs across persons, with the future tense, and use time markers like since, yet, and already.

The past perfect shows an action that happened before another past event, as in 'I had read' or 'they had eaten,' and contrasts with the present perfect.

Master the Greek superlative comparison and how to use more and than to contrast two elements. Examples include Constantinos stronger than Dimitra and Athens bigger than Yanina.

Learn the inferior comparison in modern Greek, using less to compare two elements (less cold, less beautiful than) and relate it to the prior superlative forms.

Learn equality comparison in modern greek using the words doso and also to express 'as ... as' with examples like 'martina is as strong as maria'.

Learn about lookalikes in Modern Greek, where words look or sound similar but differ in meaning, noting stress differences and examples like whatever, exactly, and totally.

Learn to express that an outfit suits someone in Greek by using possessive pronouns and conjugation for person and number, with examples like this skirt suits me.

Master the Greek definite article rules for feminine accusative nouns, learning when to use or drop the article based on the noun’s initial letter and vowel or consonant patterns.

Learn everyday Greek slang and common expressions to sound like a local, from greetings and cheers to phrases for relaxing, affection, and daily chats.

Celebrate becoming officially a Greek speaker and continue learning with course resources that cover grammar, vocabulary, and verb lists, plus reading, speaking, and listening practice.