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Ancient Greek #6: Negative Adverbs

In Greek, there are two forms of the negative adverb “not”: one for indicative verbs (e.g. He is not teaching.) and one for imperative verbs (e.g. Do not teach.) The negative adverb is placed immediately before the verb. The following table shows the two…

Ancient Greek #1: Greek Alphabet

The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, most of which were adapted from Phoenician letters. Since we won’t use transliteration (Latin letters) in the Greek readings in these lessons, it’s important to learn the Greek alphabet before moving on: Letter…