Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: terminology 2.The
present active indicative of thematic verbs (1 st principal part)
3.Verb accents 4.The negative 5.Common conjunctions
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: terminology 2.The
present active indicative of thematic verbs (1 st principal part)
3.Verb accents 4.The negative 5.Common conjunctions
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 Five items to know and identify about
every Greek verb: PERSON NUMBER TENSE MOOD VOICE
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 PERSON - subject of verb 1 st (I, we) 2
nd (you, yall) 3 rd (she, he, it, they, Godzilla, etc) NUMBER TENSE
MOOD VOICE
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 PERSON NUMBER - subject of verb Singular
(I, you, she, he, it, Godzilla) Plural (we, yall, they, Godzillas)
TENSE MOOD VOICE
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 PERSON NUMBER TENSE - time present MOOD
VOICE
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 PERSON NUMBER TENSE MOOD purpose of verb
in sentence indicative VOICE
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 PERSON NUMBER TENSE MOOD VOICE
relationship of subject to verb active
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 parse/parsing 1 st, 2 nd or 3 RD PERSON
SINGULAR or PLURAL PRESENT INDICATIVE ACTIVE
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: principal parts
Principal parts are a shorthand way of indicating how an individual
verb forms its tenses. For example, in English: carry carried
carried go went gone sing sang sung all summarize how these verbs
form their tenses.
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: principal parts In
Greek, there are seven tenses and three voices, although few verbs
have all possible combinations of these. Six principal parts
provide the shorthand for the possible tenses and voices. We will
learn these parts as we learn the tenses and voices.
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: terminology 2.The
present active indicative of thematic verbs (1 st principal part)
3.Verb accents 4.The negative 5.Common conjunctions
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 2. The present active indicative of
thematic verbs (1 st principal part) All verbs in this chapter are
present indicative active.
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 2. The present active indicative of
thematic verbs (1 st principal part) All verbs in this chapter have
two parts a stem which tells you the vocabulary meaning of the verb
an ending which tells you the person and number
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 2. The present active indicative of
thematic verbs (1 st principal part) Since only the ending tells
you the person and number, you must use the ending to determine the
subject of the verb (which normally will not be expressed by a
separate word).
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 singular - (I) - (you) - (s/he, it)
plural - (we) - (you, yall) - (they) the endings for present
indicative active verbs
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 singular (I loose) (you loose) (s/he, it
looses) plural (we loose) (you, yall loose) (they loose) the stem =
loose
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 singular (I have) (you have) (s/he, it
has) plural (we have) (you, yall have) (they have) the stem =
have
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 2. The present active indicative of
thematic verbs (1 st principal part) Greek has only one present
tense, so = we have or we are having or we do have
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 2. The present active indicative of
thematic verbs (1 st principal part) Any word in Greek which ends
in - adds an additional when followed by either (1) a word
beginning with a vowel or (2) a mark of punctuation.
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 2. The present active indicative of
thematic verbs (1 st principal part) This rule affects the spelling
and pronunciation of verbs in the 3 rd person plural. It does not
change the meaning. ... they have and ... they have but . they
have.
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 Looking up a Greek verb In a vocabulary,
glossary, lexicon, or dictionary, a Greek verb is listed by its 1
st person, singular, present, indicative, active form loose the
form means I loose, but the vocabulary will just say loose the stem
is everything before the : stem = -
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: terminology 2.The
present active indicative of thematic verbs (1 st principal part)
3.Verb accents 4.The negative 5.Common conjunctions
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ELEMENTARY GREEK Most Greek verbs have recessive accent = the
accent wants to recede back (left) to the antepenult. The length of
the vowel in the ultima determines how far back the accent can
recede. If the ultima is short, the accent recedes to the
antepenult: short ultimaaccent on antepenult
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ELEMENTARY GREEK Most words in Greek have recessive accent =
the accent wants to recede back (left) to the antepenult. The
length of the vowel in the the ultima determines how far back the
accent can recede. If the ultima is long (= two shorts), the accent
recedes only to the penult: long ultimaaccent on penult
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: terminology 2.The
present active indicative of thematic verbs (1 st principal part)
3.Verb accents 4.The negative 5.Common conjunctions
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 4. The negative The word means not and
negates a verb: = we loose = we do not loose
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 4. The negative normally does not have an
accent and precedes the word it negates: before a vowel, adds a ,
with no change in meaning before a vowel with a rough breathing,
the becomes a - , with no change in meaning
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 1.Verb formation: terminology 2.The
present active indicative of thematic verbs (1 st principal part)
3.Verb accents 4.The negative 5.Common conjunctions
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 5. Common conjunctions This chapter
introduces two common conjunctions and but
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 5. Common conjunctions Notice that both
and have acute accents on the ultima. Any word with an acute accent
on the ultima changes it to grave when followed by another word: We
write and we sacrifice but we run away. this is the only use of the
grave accent
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 5. Common conjunctions Before a word
beginning with a vowel, elides to We pursue but we do not run
away.
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 Vocabulary LSU uses a Core Vocabulary of
about 1,100 words which you learn during the first two years of
Greek. You are responsible only for vocabulary in Shelmerdine which
also appears in the Core Vocabulary.
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Shelmerdine Chapter 2 Vocabulary In Moodle is a pdf listing
which words in Shelmerdine you are responsible for this semester
All the vocabulary listed in Chapter 2 is in the Core
Vocabulary.
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ELEMENTARY GREEK for tomorrow (***): Quiz: given a verb (as in
the vocabulary), write out all six forms