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- December 2nd, 2021, 10:58 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Middle Verb/Deponent Verb Parsing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16429
- December 1st, 2021, 10:52 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Middle Verb/Deponent Verb Parsing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16429
Re: Middle Verb/Deponent Verb Parsing
Thank you for your reply. I was more thinking along the lines of what is the most common way of reffering to them, not what they mean. I.e., do people most often call them deponent verbs, middle verbs, or deponent middle verbs. I.e., if I am looking at a parsing of a word in a book, which one of the...
- November 29th, 2021, 10:18 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: How to know when your seeing a Greek Grammar Rule
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10765
How to know when your seeing a Greek Grammar Rule
Several times through Mounces Basics of Biblical Greek he will give many different ways things can be done in Greek. For example, a neuter plural, or moving a word to the beginning of a sentence to show emphasis. I am a slow learner so I am only doing one chapter a week (textbook, video lecture, mem...
- November 29th, 2021, 9:22 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Middle Verb/Deponent Verb Parsing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16429
Middle Verb/Deponent Verb Parsing
Hello, Its Basics of Biblical Greek 4th ed. Mounce states that there are three ways to parse a middle voice verb. middle - eg present middle indicative deponent - eg present deponent indicative middle deponent - eg present middle deponent indicative What is the most common form used? That is the one...
- November 10th, 2021, 12:24 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Finding the Stem of a Word
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12676
Re: Finding the Stem of a Word
LearningGreek asked, Specifically, in part 1, when you have the -(suffix) as opposed to (suffix), what is that indicating? The "-(suffix)" means the same thing as (suffix), seems to me. The hyphen is just a visual marker to set off or distinguish the suffix from the rest of the word, maki...
- October 15th, 2021, 2:46 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Finding the Stem of a Word
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12676
Re: Finding the Stem of a Word
An older but still helpful work I've used is A New Testament Greek Morpheme Lexicon by J. Harold Greenlee (Zondervan Academic, 1983). Print edition, paperback. Link to page on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/3befwen6 . It analyses words into prefixes, root word, suffixes, and endings. The first part ha...
- October 12th, 2021, 10:18 pm
- Forum: Learning Paradigms
- Topic: 2nd Person Plural Pronouns
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12330
2nd Person Plural Pronouns
Hello,
In the paradigm for εἰμί Bill Mounce says that the second person plural means "you" but that it is a plural "you" equivalent to "thou or ya'll".
Is this the case for ὑμεις and ὑμας as well?
In the paradigm for εἰμί Bill Mounce says that the second person plural means "you" but that it is a plural "you" equivalent to "thou or ya'll".
Is this the case for ὑμεις and ὑμας as well?
- October 9th, 2021, 12:10 am
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Finding the Stem of a Word
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12676
Finding the Stem of a Word
Hello, How does one find the stem of a word? I know that if you remove the case ending you get the stem, but when looking up a word I hit a wall. I have not got to verbs yet (I'm working on it) so I know that's part of the problem with my below example. βοήθεια βοηθέω βοηθός I am trying to figure ou...
- October 2nd, 2021, 7:11 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Adjective vs. Noun
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10127
Re: Adjective vs. Noun
Thank you all for your help and replies. Also that analogy about a mom talking to her baby was both hilarious and insightful. και is not in the sentence I quoted. Its from Mounce's workbook and he makes these sentences up to pair up with what you have learned so far. This is why he does not give scr...
- October 1st, 2021, 5:51 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Adjective vs. Noun
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10127
Adjective vs. Noun
Hello, I think the answer to this may be "learn English grammar" but I figured I would try to post here and see if anyone can help. I am having problems figuring out when a word is a adjective or a noun. I just learned about substantive adjectives which further confuses things as far as fi...