Properties Greek verbs have seven properties: person, number, voice, mood, tense, aspect, and time. Greek verbs have one of three persons: first (the subject is…
Tag: Greek (ελλινικά)
Classical Greek Lesson 2- Accents
Accent Marks Ancient Greek was spoken with variations in pitch. During the 3rd Century B.C., Aristophanes of Byzantium developed a series of accent marks to…
Classical Greek Lesson 1- Alphabet
Notes These notes correspond to an upcoming course I am preparing in Classical Greek. This course will follow Anne Groton’s From Alpha to Omega: A…
Ancient Greek #7: Nouns- Introduction
As with verbs, Greek nouns consist of a stem and an inflection that denotes the gender, number, and case of the noun. There are five…
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.)…
Ancient Greek #5: Verbs- Present Active Imperative
Present Active Imperative verbs give commands. These commands have an imperfective aspect. In other words, they command for an action to happen continuously or repeatedly. In…
Ancient Greek #4: Verbs- Present Active Infinitive
Present Active Infinitive verbs describe actions that either complement another verb (e.g. I want to teach), or that function as a noun (e.g. To teach is difficult.) As…
Ancient Greek #3: Verbs- Present Active Indicative
Present Active Indicative verbs denote actions occurring in the present. These verbs can refer to an action occurring at the moment of the sentence (e.g. I am…
Ancient Greek #2: Verbs- Introduction
Greek verbs consists of a stem and an inflection (a suffix or prefix that denotes the properties of the verb). Each verb has up to…
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…