# Greek adjective noun construction.

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**Created:** [September 30, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-adjective-noun-construction/733078 "2015-09-30T20:53:25Z")\
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Do adjectives come before or after nouns in Greek?

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-adjective-noun-construction/733078/2 "2015-10-01T02:09:47Z")

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Yes. Or, in other words, both.

There was Article-Adjective-Noun as well as Article-Noun-Article-Adjective. Or, at least, [it was in Koine Greek](http://www.ntgreek.org/learn_nt_greek/adjectiv.htm), the kind used in the New Testament era.

(I googled for more modern stuff, but have yet to find it. Just that Greek is usually SVO [subject-verb-object])

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greek-adjective-noun-construction/733078/3 "2015-10-01T02:17:58Z")

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My answer still applies to Modern Greek: [https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/5314](https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/5314)