Lesson 2

Introduction To Greek Verbs

The Present Indicative Active

4. Voices  The Greek verb has three voices, the active, the middle, and the passive.  The active and passive are the same as in English and Latin.  The middle voice denotes that the subjects acts upon himself or for his own benefit.

5. Mood  There are four proper or finite moods, the indicative, subjunctive, optative, and imperitive.  There are also infinitives and participles as in Latin

6. Tense  There are seven tenses, the present, future, perfect, future-perfect, perfect, imperfect, aorist, pluperfect.  The first four are primary tenses and the others secondary tenses.

7. The Aorist corresponds to the Latin historical perfect, the perfect to the English present perfect, or Latin perfect definite

8. Person----- There are three persons, as in Latin and in English

1. Notice that the inflection of luw above the syllable lu- appears in every form.  This is what is known as the verb stem.  You have to know how to find the stem to form the different verb forms.  All you have to do is drop the personal ending and that is the root.
2. The Greek endings are made up of a connecting vowl o e and the personal endings (primary for this particular tense)

Vocabulary

ballw  throw, cast

grafw   Write

ecw        have , hold

menw      remain

pempw    send