30: Numbers and Optative Verbs

Question 1

δύο

Answer 1

two (not declined)

Question 2

δώδεκα

Answer 2

twelve (not declined)

Question 3

εἷς, μία, ἕν

Answer 3

one

Question 4

ἐλπίς, ἐλπίδος, ἡ

Answer 4

hope

Question 5

ἑπτά

Answer 5

seven (not declined)

Question 6

ἔσχατος, -η, -ον

Answer 6

last, final

Question 7

μηδείς, μηδεμία, μηδέν

Answer 7

no one (used with non-indicative verbs)

Question 8

μόνος, -η, -ον

Answer 8

only, the single

Question 9

ὅλος, -η, -ον

Answer 9

whole, entire

Question 10

οὐδείς, οὐδεμία, οὐδέν

Answer 10

no one (used with indicative verbs)

Question 11

πρῶτον

Answer 11

first, in the first place, earlier (adverb)

Question 12

πρῶτος, -η, -ον

Answer 12

first (an ordinal number)

Question 13

τρεῖς, τρία

Answer 13

three

Question 14

Ἀσία, ἡ

Answer 14

Asia

Question 15

δούλη, ἡ

Answer 15

(female) servant

Question 16

Ἰούδας, ὁ

Answer 16

Judas

Question 17

καταργέω

Answer 17

I nullify, destroy

Question 18

κλήσις, -εως, ἡ

Answer 18

calling

Question 19

Μαριάμ, ἡ

Answer 19

Mary

Question 20

οὐκέτι

Answer 20

no longer

Question 21

σκοτία, ἡ

Answer 21

darkness

Question 22

τίθημι ψυχήν

Answer 22

I lay down (my) life

Question 23

φίλος, ὁ

Answer 23

friend

Question 24

Recite Declinable Numbers paradigm - εἷς, μία, ἕν

Answer 24

Question 25

Recite Declinable Numbers paradigm - τρεῖς, τρία

Answer 25

Question 26

How are numbers used in Greek?

Answer 26

As attributive, predicate or substantive adjectives.

1. Attributive

(ὁ εἷς ἄνθρωπος, “the one man” (cardinal number)

ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ πρῶτος, “the first man” (ordinal number))

2. Predicate

(ὁ θεός ἐστιν εἷς, “God is one”)

3. Substative

(οἱ δώδεκα, “the twelve”)

Question 27

What are Optative Verbs?

Answer 27

Verbs that express a wish.

• They don’t use an augment, like other non-indicative moods

They are formed

• from the present and aorist stems
• by adding an iota or iota-eta (ι, ιη) to the variable vowel.

(μή γένοιτο, “May it never be!”)