L 30

Question 1

How is ἵστημι formed in the present principle part?

Answer 1

1) the present tense reduplication gets an ἵ (notice rough breathing)
2) Stem vowel lengthens
3) Gets characteristic case ending

Question 2

How is ἵστημι formed in the Aorist principle part? And what is it?

Answer 2

There are two morphologies; there are two complete 1st and 2nd aorists
[1] ἔστησα
1) Augment
2) lengthening stem vowel
3) characteristic σα
[2] ἔστην
1) augment
2) lengthening stem vowel
3) 2nd aorist case endings

Question 3

How is ἵστημι formed in the perfect active principle part? And what is it?

Answer 3

1) the reduplication gets an epsilon and rough breathing
2) lengthened stem vowel
3) typical κα tense formative
ἕστηκα

Question 4

What is the first aorist of ἵστημι and what is it transitive or intransitive? What is an interpretation?

Answer 4

ἔστησα
Transitive
“I cause to stand, establish, etc.”

Question 5

What is the second aorist of ἵστημι and what is it transitive or intransitive? What is an interpretation?

Answer 5

ἔστην
Intransitive
“I stand, stand firm, etc.”

Question 6

For ἵστημι in what moods is the perfect first perfect and second perfect?

Answer 6

1) 2nd perfect chiefly in the participle

2) 1st perfect basically everywhere else

Question 7

Here are examples of the transitive and intransitive uses of ἵστημι.

Answer 7

Transitive—“cause to stand, set, place, establish.”

(1) ἔστησα τὸ παιδίον ἐπὶ λίθον. “I set the child on a rock.”
(2) ὁ κύριος στήσει ἡμέραν. “The Lord will establish a day.”
(3) δυνάμεθα στῆσαι τὸν νόμον; “Can we establish the Law?”

Question 8

Here are examples of the transitive and intransitive uses of ἵστημι.

Answer 8

Intransitive—“stand, stand firm.”

(1) εἶδές με ἑστῶτα ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ. “You saw me standing in the temple.”
(2) σταθήσεται ἡ βασιλεία ἡ πονηρά; “Will the evil kingdom stand?”
(3) ἡ γυνὴ ἔστη ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ. “The woman stood in the field.”

Question 9

What does it mean when there is an article before μέν and δέ and there is nothing with it?

Answer 9

It is acting as a pronoun.
It maybe marking a shift in the subject of a verb
ὁ διδάσκαλος ἀπέλυσεν τοὺς μαθητάς. οἱ δὲ ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὴν πόλιν.
The teacher dismissed the disciples. And they went away into the city.