Attic Greek Verb Endings

This is a compendium of inflectional suffixes in attic greek and a few suffixes for tense stems.

Attic greek verb endings.

For conjugation in dialects other than attic see appendix ancient greek dialectal conjugation. This table gives attic inflectional endings. A list of words that covers 90 of tokens in a collection of attic prose texts from the perseus corpus. The 9th 6th century bc known as archaic c.

Jump to navigation jump to search. Lelumetha or λελύμεθαlelumetha or λελύμεθα. Attic greek was the last dialect to retain it from older forms of greek and the dual number had died out by the end of the 5th century bc. λῡ i set loose release untangle take apart is generally used as a model greek verb.

An experiment with perseus new vocabulary tool. Buy the book or request an exam copy. Conjugate ancient greek verbs on line. Ancient greek verbs have four moods indicative imperative subjunctive and optative three voices active middle and passive as well as three persons first second and third and three numbers singular dual and plural.

In the indicative mood there are seven tenses. In addition to this in attic greek any plural neuter subjects will only ever take singular conjugation verbs. The 5th 4th century bc classical and c. Definition from wiktionary the free dictionary.

First and second aorist. Ancient greek is the form of greek used during the periods of time spanning c. The 3rd century bc 6th century ad hellenistic in ancient greece and the ancient world. The aorist almost always uses the verb stem.

Many parts of this site will be helpful however to anyone beginning or reviewing. Verb example the verb λῡ ω stem. Present imperfect future aorist the equivalent of past simple perfect pluperfect and future perfect. Verb stems are sometimes identical to a tense stem.

The imperfect tense almost always uses the present tense stem for any given verb. Third person plural present optative active of athematic verbs except for those with a stem ending in. Some verbs add a marker to the verb stem when forming the aorist others do not.