Χαίρετε!
I am supposed to write, “He is not willing to learn is sick to the soul.”
I wrote, “ὁ ἐθέλων μὴ μaθεῖν τῷ ψυχῇ νοσεῖ.”
The answer book wrote, “ὁ μαθεῖν μὴ ἐθέλων τὴν ψυχὴν νοσεῖ.”
I turned to pages 139 and 140. I wonder if the τὴν ψυχὴν is an accusative of respect? Maybe νοσεῖ is a verb denoting a state?
Is my word order OK? I know Greek is fairy free but not completely free.
I’m guessing your sentence is not “He is …” but “He who is …”.
Your ὁ ἐθέλων μὴ μανθεῖν means “He who is willing not to learn”! It’s εθελων that needs negating!
(And you mean either μανθάνειν or μαθεῖν.)
τὴν ψυχὴν νοσεῖ is an internal accusative. I don’t know what your book calls it, but it’s a very common Greek construction. We might say he’s “soul-sick.” But you can think of it as an acc. of respect if you wish.
(And τῳ ψυχῃ confuses cases. You should not be making mistakes like that.)