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1.At the newspaper’s offices«Τρέχα γύρευε» arrives an information arrives one day
that in far Frutopia ,dissapeared a greengrocer.The director of the agent’s office calls
the genius journalist Pikos apikos to assign him one of the most dangerous mission of
his career.
Πληροφορία=information
Μακρινός-ή,-ό=far
Εξαφανίστηκα pret of Eξαφανίζομαι=dissapear
Μανάβης=greengrocer.
Πρακτορείο=agent office
Δαιμόνιος=genius,bad genius derives from Demon
Αναθέτω=ασσιγν
Eπικίνδυνος-η,ο=dangerous
Αποστολή=mission
2.Yes yes..very interesting,terrific new,I will send somebody immediately.
3Miss Merop..
4.Yes Mr director.
6.Call me Pikos Apikos
7.You asked me Mr Director?
8.Yes,pride of the company.
9.At your disposal mr director.
Διάθεση=disposal,mood
Δημοσιογράφος=journalist reporter
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1.Piko Apikos my boy which is the most devil reporter of the world?
Me pikos apikos!
2.Correct!And that’s the reason I will assign you a strange,a dangerous mission.
3.What mission?
Listen to me carefully!Before some days at far froutopia dissapeared a grocer.
4.What was his name.
Manolis
5.Manoli
6.Every night Manolis used to turn down the rolls and goes to the café,but this fateful
night,they were wasting their time waiting for him* his friends.He never
arrived.Dissapeared.
Άδικα=unfairly,unjustly
7.Tss.What are you talking about(what are you saying to me)
8.This which I want from you,pride of the newspaper,Is to go to Frutopia and solve
the mystery of the grocer who dissapeared!That means to give an answer at the hot
questions.Who was Manolis the grocer.Why dissapeared?Who make him dissapear?
The fruit had any interference at his disappearance?Understand piko apiko my boy?
Να λύσω subj of Λύνω=solve
Εξαφανίσα pret of Εξαφανίζω=make dissapear.
Η Ανάμειξη =interference
9.So go my boy,go pride of our newspaper

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1.Yes I am going!
2.Well go!
3.Where is frutopia
4.You don’t know where Frutopia is?I don’t blame you.Is a very far country.Here it
is.Here it is!At the west side borders with Afgatiganistan(world play sounds like fried
eggs)on the east with Piperou(like Pepper) at the northwest with the fireworks island)
and the country of snore.
Αδικώ=be unfair with someone.
Το πυροτέχνημα,τα πυροτεχνήματα=fireworkds
Το Χασμουρητό,τα χασμουρητά=snores
5.Has two bridges,one telegraph stick and one fountain.There is also two football
teams.The yellow team and the red storm!
Θύελλα=storm
Συντριβάνι=fountain
Γέφυρα=bridge
6.How many neighbours has?
6-7 I think.At the yellow neighbor live the yellow fruits.
7.At the red neighbor the red.The broad beans stay in Koukaki.
8.The jujube fruits where they live?
9. At tzitzifies.
10.The pumpkins stay at kolokinthou.
Η κολοκύθα,οι κολοκυθες=pumpkin

1.The onions where they live?

At the tears neighborhood
Το δάκρυ,τα δάκρυα=tear
2.With what should I go
3.With your supersonic scooter!
I have it on the garage.
4.Then take the train until the mountains of Grey Koutourouki and from there the
ballon to frutopia.
5.I am on my way!
Have a good road!
6.Poor Pikos Apikos.I forgot to tell him what strange things happen at Frutopia lately!
Very strange things.Who knows what will happen to him(lit.what is waiting for him.
Τελευταία=lately

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1.I like very much to prepare my suitcase.Very much.But I must be careful not forget
anything..You never know what may need to you in such a big and far travel at the
edge of the world.
Πέρατα του κόσμου=edge of the world
Ετοιμάζω=prepare
Βαλίτσα=suitcase
Να ξεχάσω subj of Ξεχνώ=I forget.
2..Kinine,undershirts,shaltshaker,shoulder strap,where I have the shoulder
strap’s.Where I have them?
3.Toothbrush,whistle,mosquito net,violoncelo,it can’t fit,I ll take only one string and
the fiddlestick.
4..Shocks.
.5.Here is a red one.Here is a black one also.What should I do,what should I do?.Let’s
take a yello one also,for any case
Για καλό και για κακό=for any case.
6The pullover that my grandmother crocheted,is big,takes(needs) a lot of space.
7.Let’s unravel a little bit.
Ξηλώνω=unravel.
8.A little bit more
9..A little more.
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1.ok
2.Turtle,Dictionary,Fruit-Greek,Greek-Fruit,toothpicks,
3.alarm clock,shaving cream,lollipop,loundry,it doesn’t fit,impossible!
4.I will throw it away!
6.I’m sorry sir,
7.First time I see,such a big knob.
8.Did I forget anything?Oinment for the hair fall,compress,plaster,hats.

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Trouser.,Where I have my other trouser!Oh yeah,instead of putting it in the laundry I
putted it in the mixer.
2.Doesnt matter,let’s take some more hats.Coffe pot,Fire extinguisher.in case I will be
burned by the sun.
3.Mouse trap,Go away,and don’t do it again,leave to me also some cheese!
4.What else?Oh yeah.Comb(old world),flint,toilet paper,hot watter
bottle,,brush.,thermos with lather to make lather bubles,ok great,everything ready,I
didn’t forget anything.
5.Pssst,Mr Elephant can you step a little bit on my suitcase to close,please?
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1.What time the train leaves for the Grey koutourous Mountains?
Just now left
2.What are you sitting then?
Whistle him to go backwards
Κάνω όπισθεν=go backwards by vehicle.
3.What happened guys?
Half a minute.Won’t you take a ticket?
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1.No thanks.Keep it for your work(or trouble)
It is forbidden to travel without ticket.
2.What tickets you have?
First second and third class.
Don’t you have forth?
3.There is but the wagon of forth has been damaged and we send it for repair.You
must hold yourself from the wagon of the third class, and run on your own on the
lines!
4.Pfff I am so tired by this!But it had a nice view!
5.Did the Sir travelled good?
6.Yes,I can’t complain,It was good.But if there was a wagon it would be a lot
better.Werent you at the previous station?
No it was my twin brother.I have pink whistle.
From where the balloons leave?
From there!
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Departure of the ballon number 262 for ….
Wait a moment
2.Isnt going to frutopia?
Probably?
What means probably?
Sometime the wind takes it elsewhere!
3.Wear it!It will need you if it happens to fall on the sea
4.Take also this clothespin.Plug your nose so that they wont enter waters,if it happens
to fall into the sea.
5.Take also this hat.with lighting rod.,You will need it if it happens and a strike hit us!

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1.Anything else?
2.Take also this watering can.You will need it if it happens to fall inside some
volcano.Take also this pincers,You will need it if we fall at the mouth of some
hippopotamus!
3.What should I do with the pincers inside the mouth of Hipopotamus?
You will put out his teeths so he wont eat you!
4..Ready
Ready
5.How high that we are flying.Look how the people seem.Like ants!
6.They are ants!We havent yet take off!Now we are taking off!What time we arrive at
Frutopia.I wish I knew!
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1.Makes good travels, this balloon*?

Καλοτάξιδο=is a wish we make to somebody when takes a new vehicle so that he ll have
good travels.Never used otherwise except here of course!
2.Well not so so!Yesterday I botched it.
Μπάλωσα pret of Μπαλώνω=correct some holes.

2.What’s happening?
3.We are screwed!Is coming toward us a pack of fishbirds
4.What fishbirds?
Flying swordfish!They like to drill the balloons with their nose!
5.Tell me.I have give you a parachute?
No!
6.What I gave you?
7.Lifejacket,hat with lightning rod,watering can to burn out volcanos and pinches to put out
the hippopotamus teeth!These!
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1.Did I give you a parachute?
No!
2.How can I predict everything.I am a human being also.Here it is!They are getting
close.Look at the noses they have!They are like saws.Look this big flying swordfish.It
is the leader of the swarm.Its obvious.It’s coming straight toward us.
3.Tell me,you know( how to) jump?
4.In legth only
Εις μήκος means=in length like the sport when they are jumping,
5.Time to learn to jump in depth also!
6.Jump!

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1.I wonder where am I?
Άραγε=I wonder.
Desert,can’t see anyone(lit.no one is appearing)
Ερημιά=Solitude,isolation
2.What a surprise(lit what I see?)Someones coming
A cart!

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I am bored,I am bored
How much I am bored,
To live,to yawn,to pull the dirty cart
To walk,to hee-haw
To brake,to park
And the roads to travel.
2.What are you laughing to?
First time you see man, with life jacket on the waist and hat with lightning rod?
3.Haha you were swimming in the field?
4.Mind your own business(don’t care about it)This is my matter.I am a shipwrecker if
you (really ) want to know.Now the donkeys got our of their eggs.(Lit. NowThe
donkeys took courage)Where is your boss?
5.I don’t have a boss.I am working for my part.I am a self appointed donkey.I carry
out transports.
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1.Will you do me the favor to take me until frutopia?
If I ll get paid well.
How much you want?
2.How much you want?
100 per kilometer
50
75
30
120
Deal!
Get up!
3.Tell me friend,cant you go a little bit faster?
I am a donkey not a rocket..
4.And tell me.How much you consume per thistle?
Καίω =burn but also gas consumption.
Don’t talk to the driver(in old greek)
5.Good! We are in the right road!
6.When I have laziness.
Good old habit
I make a twirl
And I make a mischief.

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1.What’s happening .Why you stopped?

2.I got tired.Time to change.
3.What?
4.It’s your turn to drive.
Who me?
Yes you!
5.You mean to drag the cart?
6.You my friend,you can blow out a donkey*.Yes that’s what I mean!
*Σκας και γάιδαρο.Greek Phrase means,that someone is so annoying and no one can
tolerate him.
7.Anyway.What can we do*
Κομμάτια να γίνει=let’s forget about it and let’s do it.something like that
8.We are going very slow.Why don’t you put (the) third) (means gear)
Leave me alone ,to don’t hear anything!(to don’t tell you anything,of course means
something not so good!)
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1.Froutopia 10 kilometres
2.Froutopia very close.
3.Froutopia very very close
4.From time to time you arrive
5.You almost arrived
6.Frutopia 100 kms!
7.You took a wrong way!
8.Now you tell me why didn’t you notify me on time?

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1. Because you insulted me!

Προσβάλω=insult
2.You told me to leave you alone!
3.Oh great.An inn.
4.I got tired.Let’s stop a little bit to get rested.

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1.If you are going to Frutopia.come back stranger
In frutopia they don’t want you
Θένε from Θέλουνε
2.In frutopia don’t step your feet(lit don’t step a feet)
You will regret it.
3.Back you will never be!
4.Should we sit with you stranger?
5.And don’t you seat?(means why not?)
6.What will the gentlemen take?and the donkey?

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1.A beer and a cero(fish
2.A coffee and a delight(turkish delight)
3.One portion thistle with many spines!
4.Well ,where you are about to go?
5.To frutopia!
6.What?
7.The better for you,stay away from this place.Away!
8.I am not going(means I am not the one to go).I just carry out transports.
9.Great transports.I died in walking!

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1.It’s good for you!

2.What?
3.You ‘ld liked it when I was driving huh?
4.Come on!Don’t fight.It’s not necessary!
5.One beer,one cero,and one coffee,and one loukoumi.
6.And one portion of thistles with many pines.
7.Its not for me the thistles its for him
8.Sorry
9.Well what’s happening in Frutopia ,stranger?

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What should I say(means what should I say first.)
2.I am coming from there.I am a refugee.
But what hapenned
2.Incidents!One day dissapeared Manolis the grocer
I know.I learned it.
3.After his dissapearance,people of frutopia,terrified.They were scared that they
‘ld had the same luck(lit that the same luck was waiting for them).The grocers left
first of all!
4.And then left the others!5
5.Only the policeman has stayed.
6.Ok ,I will go to find him!

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1.you will find it very difficult to find him his afraid that the fruits will set up
some trap to him and he has been disguised.
2.Into what?
3.I have no idea.One (thing) only I know.That he is a master in disguise
Ασος=master,very good
4.What happened to Manolis the grocer?Why he disappeared?
5.Nobody knows.I heard some rumors,but ,leave it,I don’t tell it to you.
6.Tell me !tell me!
7.Some fruit …(λέει here is like introductory to the story) made a
huge,terrible,Fruit monster,who eats human!
Don’t tell me!
8.It;s like am telling you.(Lit Like I tell them to you).Better come back(lit.The
good I want for you)Go to your place.That’s why I left also from frutopia.I am
going to the north pole to open a kiosk and sell hot water bottles to the
eskimoos.Come with me if you want.I need a helper.

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1.Thanks very much but not!I have to make my duty.I will go to frutopia and I
will solve the mystery of the grocer that disappeared,and whatever other mysteries
there are.
2.Time to go ,come.
3.I m not going anywhere.Should I come with you to the North pole?
4.And don’t you come?(means why you shouldn’t)
Are there any donkes on the North pole?
6.No you will be the first pole donkey of the world.
7.What can we do(lit what should be) Goodbye!
8.Goodbye condemnded to death ,good bye
Μελλοθάννατος=Μέλλον=future+ θάννατος=death the person that is about to die.
You should write to us.(phrase used,when somebody ‘s leaving for a long time,but
nowadays most with irony,that someone should leave and we don’t want to see
him for a long time.
9.I will go on foot.There is no other solution.

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Meanwhile In frutopia.

1.Maroulita,maroulita!
2.Who’s there?(lit.Who is?)
3.Me Thanos the marrow.
4.You are my good one?I was waiting for you!
5.What do you say.Should we take a walk to the kitchen garden?
*The word sounds more near to cabbage garden
6.No!Not there!There are caterpillars.I am afraid of them.
7.Don’t mind.I drive them away!
8.Really?How brave you are!
9.I will crush them,then if you want we can go to the vegetable market,to hear
Aimilios the apple.He speaks today.He will make allocution.
10.Great!Pass in a while to take me.I will get ready
11.Fine good bye!

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1.But where it went,I ld like to know where it went.

2.Did It happen that you see a pepon(melon) spot.About that much(means on size)
3.But where it went.
4.Maroulita maroulita bend my gentle,look.
The vrasida that is singing for you and for you is keeping his eye open.
5.Not “Keeping his eye open” its full midday,Don’t say everyone what he wants.
(Don’t we say everything we want)
6.I am not talking to you madam,Mind your own business(lit.do your own
business)I am singing.Well,as we were saying.
7.I ll never find again such a tender lettuce!
Maroulita maroulita!
From the cabbage most envied.
More sweet than the blites
Illusion of the dreams
Pay some attention to me.
Σημασία=importance,meaning
Δίνω σημασία=pay attention,notice

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1.Well you deserved it,(good that he did it to you)Annoying!Tuning!You
deafened us!
2.Oh Marulita!You wetted me.I suspect that probably she doesn’t like me.I
wander what finds in Thanos!What is thanos after all(than) an tasteless
marrow.He havent even weared a shirt!
3.While I have weared a thousand shirts…I am wet.And imagine that today I
wore my silken shirts, to be more classy.This is not a situation!
(Expression of indignation)
4.This paper bag is moved or it(just) seemed to me?It should be my
imagination(lit my idea)

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1.It’s good that I brought with me the sesoir.
2.Ok .I got dry.Let’s make one more try.
3.But where it went?The earth opened and shallowed it?(common greek phrase
when we loose something and we cant find it)
4.Maroulita how you can taking it ,every once in a while to get wet on me,.
Do you want me to get pneumonia and frutopia will loose me?
I have caught a cold.I have hoarsened.My pleura are hurting.Doesnt matter how
many I am enduring,Maroulita I love you!
5.Maroulita again the same,Maroulita.
I should go buy some umbrellas from the umbrella house of the month of
mandarin.

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1.Pikos apikos,arrives to frutopia.
2.At last I arrived.Strange place.Not even a human doesn’t seem on the streets.I
hope that I ll find any good hotel to stay.
3.Strange!Does this paper bag moved or the my eyes are playing games?(lit eyes
make fun on me)
4.Sir postman!Do you know if there is around here any good hotel?
good No.Hotel there is.Here it is.The hotel of the pepper the blistering tongue.
Φαρμακογλωσσος =a person who gossips and talks with bad words about people.