Tenses And Moods Flashcards
what tense stem is λυ?
PRESENT TENSE
- Denotes something happening at the present time.
FUTURE
λυσ- future action
IMPERFECT
ε’λυ- speaks to the past just like a AORIST. denotes an action somewhat extended in time.
EXAMPLE: I was walking to the store.
Every day I walked to a store.
I used to walk to the store.
AORIST-Tense Stem
έλύσ- past action as with imperfect but used to simply state that an action has happened.
EXAMPLE: I walked to the store.
Which is the “default” past tense:
AORIST OR IMPERFECT?
AORIST
Indicative mood is used to express…
A statement or a question
PRESENT FUTURE IMPERFECT AORIST All these occur in the\_\_\_\_\_mood?
Indicative
Which of these tenses also occur in the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD?
PRESENT
FUTURE
IMPERFECT
AORIST
PRESENT and AORIST
The only mood in which a verb can be negated with the use of ού is…
Indicative
All other moods…
IMPERATIVE, INFINITIVE, SUBJUNCTIVE, PARTICIPLE… are negated by using which word?
μή
INFINITIVE mood
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This verbal mood expresses a possibility, probability, exhortation, or axiomatic concept;
Subjunctive
This subjunctive tense is built on the present tense stem and indicates a continuous action;
the imperfective subjunctive
This subjunctive tense built on the unaugmented aorist tense stem and indicates an undefined action;
the perfective subjunctive
THE SIGN OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD IS
the lengthened connecting vowel (e.g., λύωμεν). The endings are the same in both the present and the aorist.
