Verb declension Flashcards
1st aorist active indicative 1ps
ἐλυσα
1st aorist active indicative 2ps
ἐλυσας
1st aorist active indicative 3ps
ἐλυσεν
1st aorist active indicative 1pp
ἐλυσαμεν
1st aorist active indicative 2pp
ἐλυσατε
1st aorist active indicative 3pp
ἐλυσαν
1st aorist active imperative 2ps
λυσον
1st aorist active imperative 3ps
λυσάτω
1st aorist active imperative 2pp
λυσατε
1st aorist active imperative 3pp
λυσαντων
What does the aorist tense denote? Is it different to other past tenses?
An action undertaken in the past - “I did X”.
Not the same as the imperfect (“I was doing X”), the perfect (“I have done X”) and the pluperfect (“I had done”).
1st aorist active subjunctive 1ps
λυσω
1st aorist active subjunctive 2ps
λυσῃς
1st aorist active subjunctive 3ps
λυσῃ
1st aorist active subjunctive 1pp
λυσωμεν
1st aorist active subjunctive 2pp
λυσητε
1st aorist active subjunctive 3pp
λυσωσι(ν)
1st aorist active optative 1ps
λυσαιμι
1st aorist active optative 2ps
λυσειας/λυσαις
1st aorist active optative 3ps
λυσειε(ν)/λυσαι
1st aorist active optative 1pp
λυσαιμεν
1st aorist active optative 2pp
λυσαιτε
1st aorist active optative 3pp
λυσειαν/λυσαιεν
1st aorist active infinitive
λυσαι
1st aorist active participle
λυσ-ας, -ασα, -αν
Imperfect active indicative 1ps
ἔλυον
Imperfect active indicative 2ps
ἔλυες
Imperfect active indicative 3ps
ἔλυε(ν)
Imperfect active indicative 1pp
ἔλυομεν
Imperfect active indicative 2pp
ἔλυετε
Imperfect active indicative 3pp
ἔλυον
How is the future active formed?
root+σ+ending
What moods can the future verb take?
Indicative or optative
Present active indicative participle
λυων, -ουσα, -ον
‘I am’ present active indicative 1ps
εἰμί
‘I am’ present active indicative 2ps
εἶ
‘I am’ present active indicative 3ps
ἐστί(ν)
‘I am’ present active indicative 1pp
ἐσμέν
‘I am’ present active indicative 2pp
ἐστέ
‘I am’ present active indicative 3pp
εἰσίν
‘I am’ present active imperative 2ps
ἴσθι
‘I am’ present active imperative 3ps
ἔστω
‘I am’ present active imperative 2pp
ἔστε
‘I am’ present active imperative 3pp
ὄντων