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- July 27th, 2017, 5:01 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: τι and Context
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τι and Context
Τι ακουσομεν του διδασκαλου; The above sentence in Duff's textbook is translated by Duff as, "Why should we listen to the teacher?" But, stripped of context, couldn't the sentence also be translated as, "What should we listen to from the teacher?" Given that the sentence has no c...
- July 18th, 2017, 4:49 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Perfect Active Indicative
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8234
Re: Perfect Active Indicative
As a newcomer to Greek, I have just come across this same issue in my textbook. For example, my book's author translates μεμαρτυρηκα as, "have borne". Given Stephen's last post in this thread, is "have borne" the "least worst" English translation for the perfect active ...
- July 11th, 2017, 3:34 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Idiomatic Use of εστιν?
- Replies: 3
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Idiomatic Use of εστιν?
Duff's Greek textbook has the following phrase: γαρ εστιν υμων ο διδασκαλος Τhe above phrase is translated by Duff as follows: "for you have one teacher" Since this phrase is about "having" a teacher, shouldn't a derivative of εχω be used, instead of εστιν? Ιs εστιν sometimes use...