Learn how to write kappa and omikron
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| Hi everybody, this is Stefania! Welcome to Greekpod101.com’s Alfaveeto made easy. |
| The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn the Greek alphabet: the alfaveeto! |
| In our previous two lessons, we covered four letters: “Alpha”, “Mee”, “Taf” and “Yota” –“ah”, “m”, “t” and “ee”. Have you been practicing them? Today we’ll learn two more –after these we will have covered 25% of the Greek alphabet! So let’s go. |
| Our first letter this time is again a consonant, “Kappa”. Its sound is “k” and it looks like this. |
| Here’s an uppercase Kappa. Yes, it’s the same as the English “K”. |
| It is handwritten like this: K |
| And this is what the lowercase Kappa looks like. Like Taf it’s easier than the lowercase English “k” since it’s an uppercase “K” but smaller! |
| It is handwritten like this: κ |
| Let’s do it again- Here’s the uppercase form: Κ |
| And here’s the lowercase form: κ |
| Let's move on to our second letter for this lesson. This is a vowel, called “Omikron” which makes the sound “oh”. Again, this will look very familiar since its appearance is the same as the English “O” –both in uppercase and lowercase. |
| This is how the uppercase Omikron looks like –exactly the same as the English “O”. |
| It is handwritten like this: O |
| And this is what the lowercase Omikron looks like. Nothing to remember, right? |
| It is handwritten like this: o |
| Let’s do it again- Here’s the uppercase form: O |
| And here’s the lowercase form: o |
| Is there something we could do with just “Kappa” and “Omikron”? Not much besides the all too familiar “OK” (yes, Greeks use that too –especially in Internet communication). You just write the two letters together as you would in English and, also like English, it’s better to write them in uppercase. Let’s write it together, shall we? |
| OK |
| OK is, well, okay. But let’s try a word that uses letters from all the past lessons. “κάτι” (“kati”) which means “something”; for example in the sentence, “Θέλω να φάω κάτι” (“thelo na fao kati”) meaning “I want to eat something”. Let’s write this word together. |
| κάτι |
| Another word, also useful in everyday communication is the word “κομμάτι” meaning “piece”, as in “θέλω ένα κομμάτι πίτα” “I want a piece of pie”. Let’s write “κομμάτι” using all the letters we have learned by now. |
| K k κ |
| Κομμάτι |
| You noticed that in “kommati” the “mee” is doubled, right? This happens for grammatical reasons we explain in our language lessons on GreekPod101.com –you have been studying them too, right?? |
| So let’s see all the letters we have learned so far. “Alpha”, “Mee”, “Taf”, “Yota”, “Kappa” and “Omikron” |
| Not that hard, are they? |
| Now it's time for Stefania’s insights. |
| You may have noticed that the letters up to this point are not that hard since variations of them appear in the English alphabet. But please remember that the small differences are important! Even though most Greeks will understand a lowercase “kappa” written just like a lowercase English “k”, the correct way to write it is with a shorter vertical line. Don’t neglect this detail; it will make your Greek writing much more natural! |
| Before I leave you, here’s a question: what is the world’s longest number? Everybody knows it by its Greek name which isn’t the name of a dessert! Got it? Check our next lesson and learn what I’m talking about! |
| See you in the next Alfaveeto made easy lesson! Ya hara! |
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