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Greek alphabet and characters
The Greek alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Greek language.
Lower-case characters:
Upper-case characters
Greek grammar rules
Nouns
There are three grammatical genders in Greek:
- masculine
- feminine
- neuter
And two numbers
- singular
- plural
Nouns and adjectives decline into four cases:
- nominative
- genitive
- accusative
- vocative
Verbs
Greek formatting rules
Date formats
First day of the week | Monday |
Working days | Monday to Friday |
Short date format | d/M/yyyy, as well as dd/MM/yy |
e.g. 24/3/2016 or 24/03/16 | |
Long date format | d MMMM yyyy |
e.g. 24 Μάρτιον 2016 |
Numbers and measurements
Greek capitalisation usage
Should be capitalised
- People’s names.
- Geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities etc.), nouns that denote residents of a country, language names, days and months are always capitalised.
- Headings, captions and images titles: only the first word is capitalised unless a proper noun is featured.
- In all menu and dialogs elements (buttons, titles, options, etc): only the first letter of the first word should be capitalised.
- If the terms are considered as application names or software elements, each word except conjunction might start with uppercase.
- Phrases that are denoted by bullets and numbering, start with a capital letter.
- Phrases included in lists (chapters, sections, products, system requirements, etc.) that are neither sentences nor a sentence sequence, start with a capital letter.
- In programming languages (C, Visual Basic, WordBasic, etc.) commands, the same format is maintained for upper-case and lower-case characters both in English and Greek. The same applies for all non-localizable key-words and special terminology.
- The sentences that follows a colon after words “Caution”, “Note” or “Warning”, should start with uppercase.
- When the colon is used to enter a list (e.g. actions list etc.), each item/sentence should start with capital letter.
Should NOT be capitalised
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