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What are participles and how are they used?

Participles are defined as verbal adjectives: they are formed from verbs, describing an action but are used as adjectives. For example, 'I ran away from the collapsing house' uses the ...

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How can I remember all the endings?

It is true that there are a lot of endings for every type of word in Greek. There are many ways to learn them, depending on the person. For example, you could try writing a whole table without looking ...

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How do you form the aorist tense in Greek?

The aorist tense can be formed in three ways: the weak aorist, the strong aorist, and the root aorist. All have an augment. The weak aorist has the same stem as the present tense + σ + endings (α, ας, ...

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Explain the three ways of forming an indirect statement in Greek

1.Verbs of thinking(e.g. νομιζω): accusative + infinitve

2. Verbs of percieving (e.g. ἀκουω) : accusative + partcicple

3. Verbs of saying (e.g. λεγω ) : ὁτι/ὡς + ind...

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What is the difference between the aorist tense and the perfect tense?

The aorist tense in Greek represents a single and complete action in the past. The perfect tense represents a past action which still affects the present - the aorist has no affect on the present.

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Answered by Gillian C. • Classical Greek tutor

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