Prepositions
Posted: November 4th, 2012, 12:33 am
What's the difference between the prepositions eÍpið and eÍn?
Is there any difference in meaning or usage?
Is there any difference in meaning or usage?
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Your Greek font is not coming through and the text is coming across as gibberish. Please use Unicode or a standard (i.e. B-Greek style) transliteration.Mike Burke wrote:What's the difference between the prepositions eÍpið and eÍn?
Is there any difference in meaning or usage?
It depends. In some contexts they are as different as the difference between external (upon) and internal (in). In other contexts, not so much.Mike Burke wrote:What's the difference (if there is any difference) between Epi and En?
I would also say that although there is almost always a difference between the prepositions "επι" and "εν", very often even a literal English translation cannot show an obvious distinction unless you analyze the surrounding context, because a large variety of English words have to be used to convey all the different possible usages of "επι". Usually though "εν" means "{ in / among (plural) } (in a location) / in (in reference to / in a period of time ) / { in / by } (by an indirect object). For more detail you should refer to a lexicon (like http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/mor ... ek#lexicon), or simply read more to get familiar with the common words like "επι" and "εν".Stephen Carlson wrote:It depends. In some contexts they are as different as the difference between external (upon) and internal (in). In other contexts, not so much.Mike Burke wrote:What's the difference (if there is any difference) between Epi and En?
Thank you both.David Lim wrote:I would also say that although there is almost always a difference between the prepositions "επι" and "εν", very often even a literal English translation cannot show an obvious distinction unless you analyze the surrounding context, because a large variety of English words have to be used to convey all the different possible usages of "επι". Usually though "εν" means "{ in / among (plural) } (in a location) / in (in reference to / in a period of time ) / { in / by } (by an indirect object). For more detail you should refer to a lexicon (like http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/mor ... ek#lexicon), or simply read more to get familiar with the common words like "επι" and "εν".Stephen Carlson wrote:It depends. In some contexts they are as different as the difference between external (upon) and internal (in). In other contexts, not so much.Mike Burke wrote:What's the difference (if there is any difference) between Epi and En?