Don't get hung up on using a workbook that asks you to parse isolated words.LearningGreek wrote: ↑September 27th, 2021, 9:29 amI did not get that. Thanks for pointing that out.Barry Hofstetter wrote: ↑September 26th, 2021, 8:50 pmDid you get the point that a noun is always the same gender no matter what case it takes?LearningGreek wrote: ↑September 26th, 2021, 6:33 pm
Sorry, I mean genitive singular, masculine (οῦ) and neutor (οῦ). The articles for them are the same as well τοῦ.
The articles on the example you gave are different even though the case ending is the same. With the genitive singular the articles and case ending are the same.
Bill mounce states that you can use the article to help determine the gender of a noun since they are unique unlike the case endings.
My confusion is that some of the articles are the same for masc and neut. So when I am going through the workbook parsing a word, I do not know if I should parse it as masc or neut since its case ending fir masc and neut is the same and the article for masc and neut is the same.
Start reading the GNT and see how 'real Greek' sentences function.
Yes, parse something which gives you a problem in translation, but do it in the context of a real sentence.
BTW the endings for the Masculine and Neuter Definite Articles are identical in Genitive and Dative, Singular and Plural. Genitive Plural ending is identical for just about everything.
In English the Definite Article is the same for all genders and cases - but it doesn't give us a problem, we just blast through and say "the" without thinking about it.