Semester 2, Lecture 3: Contract Verbs

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

• Download Verb Paradigms Chart
• Review Quiz on chapter 15
• Review Workbook exercise 16

Review of Present Indicative Active

• Action usually occurs in present time, from the point of view of the speaker or writer (16.14)
• Aspect is either Simple (Undefined) or Continuous (Imperfective) (16.13)
• The Active voice indicates that the subject is performing the action of the verb
• The Indicative mood states a fact or asks a question. The relationship of the verb to reality is that of actuality, as opposed to wish, desire, probability, command.

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Semester 2, Lecture 2: Present Indicative Active

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

• Download Verb Paradigms Chart
• Verbs describe an action or a state of being (15.2)
• Verbs have Person, Number, Tense, Voice and Mood
  
  
  
  • parse in this order, along with Lexical Form and Inflected Meaning (7 elements in a parsed verb)
  • Greek verbs do not have case.
  • Person: 1st (person speaking), 2nd (person spoken to) or 3rd (person or thing spoken about)
    
    
    
    • Since Greek verbs have person implicit in the personal endings, the subject does not have to be explicitly expressed. e.g. “διδάσκω” is a complete sentence.

  
  
  • Number: Singular or Plural (15.14, 16)
  
  
  • Tense: Present, Imperfect, Future, Aorist, Perfect and Pluperfect (includes both Time and Aspect – more on this below) (15.16)
  
  
  • Voice (15.11,18): Active, Middle, Passive – relationship between the verb and the subject, e.g. the subject did the action (Active), or the action was done to the subject (Passive), or the action somehow returned to the subject (Middle)
  
  
  • Mood: the relationship between the verb and reality, e.g. is it a statement of fact, something probable, something desired, a command, etc., or you could say, “something that is” “something that may be” etc. (15.11)

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Semester 2, Lecture 1: Introduction to Verbs

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

• Review Final Exam from 1st semester
• Workbook exercises must be completed in order to take tests
• This semester, you will receive additional assignments from other sources, e.g. Metzger’s Lexical Aids
• Download Verb Paradigms Chart from GKNT.ORG

Verbs

• Verbs describe an action or a state of being (15.2)
• Verbs have Person, Number, Tense, Voice and Mood
  
  
  
  • parse in this order, along with Lexical Form and Inflected Meaning (7 elements in a parsed verb)
  • Greek verbs do not have case.

Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Jan 17, 2012

Semester 2 Schedule

Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Dec 13, 2011

Enclitics and the Rules of Accent

This question has been raised:

“On #8 in parsing on the worksheet for chapter ten, the “τινες” has no accent.
We can’t figure out how we ought to parse it, since both of the identical words in the book have accents [one on the penult, one on the ultima.]"

The confusion has to do with the nature of enclitics, as they relate to the rules of accent.

The indefinite pronoun, (τις, τι) is enclitic (throws its accent back), like most forms of εἰμι (BBG 8.12).

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The Importance of Biblical Languages

An excerpt from: “To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools” (1524) by Dr. Martin Luther

“All right,” you say again, "suppose we do have schools; what is the use of teaching Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and the other liberal arts?

Posted by Διδάσκαλος Ἀνδρέας Ἀέριος and last updated on Dec 13, 2011