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- March 8th, 2012, 11:53 am
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω
- Replies: 8
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Re: Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω
Thanxs for the info Carl! I'm self taught in Greek so much of how I understand things is possibly incorrect (and it's showing LOL!!). May be it might be helpful if I explain how I would get the aorist active infinitive and then you could pinpoint where I'm going wrong? 1. Determine the "aorist ...
- March 8th, 2012, 10:19 am
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6841
Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω
Hi: I'm trying to parse the word γνωναι and Perseus, my Lexicon, and my Interlinear all say it's the aor act inf of γινσωκω. Am I forming the aor act inf correctly: "aorist active stem" + ειν (it's 2nd aorist active so that's why I'm using the ending ειν) γνω + ειν (how does this become γν...
- March 5th, 2012, 11:21 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2194
Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Thanxs Stephen!
- March 5th, 2012, 11:05 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2194
Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Hi Louis: I'm getting the form from two places: #1: Basics of Biblical Greek by Mounce p.440 (this is 2nd Edition) #2: The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament by Mounce p. 473 What is interesting is in both books they list the imperfect middle indicative.1s as εφοβουμην, so the εο in the i...
- March 5th, 2012, 6:15 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
- Replies: 7
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Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Hi: I would have expected the present active indicative.1s of the verb "to fear" to be phobovuai (i.e. phobe + o + uai ==> phobovuai since the "eo" contracts to "ov" but for some reason the "eo" doesn't contract and the present active indicative.1s of "to...
- March 4th, 2012, 7:40 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Can Greek words have more than two forms?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1765
Re: Can Greek words have more than two forms?
Thanxs Stephen for the info - that answer a secondary question (which was could a word have two different parsings for say the subjunctive (or two for the imperative or ....)
Thanxs Louis - Perseus is great!
Thanxs Louis - Perseus is great!
- March 4th, 2012, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Can Greek words have more than two forms?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1765
Can Greek words have more than two forms?
Hi: I had always thought that when a Greek word had multiple forms (for example present active indicative.2p and present active imperative.2p) it could only have two forms, one in the indicative and one in the non-indicative. But then I came across this word which seems to have three forms: the word...