How does one express, "The closer the better" in Greek?
Posted: August 5th, 2014, 1:12 pm
I realise this is not really a beginners' question, but it is a writing Greek question.
After the style of Lysias 24.20, an absolute statement "The closest shops to the day market have the most customers, while the furthest have the least", would be πλεῖστοι μὲν προσφοιτῶσιν πρὸς τοὺς ἐγγυτάτω τῆς ἀγορᾶς κατεσκευασμένους, ἐλάχιστοι δὲ πρὸς τοὺς πλεῖστον ἀπέχοντας αὐτῆς.
How would one express the phrase, "The closer a shop is to the day market, the more customers they are likely to have, while the further it is the less it will have."?
The only things that spring to mind are that it might be expressed with the dative (closest to the ) of a comparative adjective, or perhaps like Modern Greek, it be a; πόσον (or ὃσον) <comparative> τόσον <comparative> construction "By how much <>-er by so much <>-er"?
After the style of Lysias 24.20, an absolute statement "The closest shops to the day market have the most customers, while the furthest have the least", would be πλεῖστοι μὲν προσφοιτῶσιν πρὸς τοὺς ἐγγυτάτω τῆς ἀγορᾶς κατεσκευασμένους, ἐλάχιστοι δὲ πρὸς τοὺς πλεῖστον ἀπέχοντας αὐτῆς.
How would one express the phrase, "The closer a shop is to the day market, the more customers they are likely to have, while the further it is the less it will have."?
The only things that spring to mind are that it might be expressed with the dative (closest to the ) of a comparative adjective, or perhaps like Modern Greek, it be a; πόσον (or ὃσον) <comparative> τόσον <comparative> construction "By how much <>-er by so much <>-er"?