Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Verb: That's What's Happening
Well, it's taken me four months (this is what happens when I'm left to work at my own pace), but I've finally made my way through the nouns and pronouns, and I'm now ready to step into the brave new world of Greek verbs.
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Wow. After the alphabet the first thing we learned in seminary Greek was present indicative active verbs.
luo I loose, am loosing, do loose
lueis Thou loosest, etc.
luei He, she, it looses, etc.
luomen We loose etc.
luete You (pl.) loose, etc.
luousi(n) They loose, etc.
To loose has to be one of the rarest, most obscure verbs (I mean, who talks about loosing something/one) but that's where we started.
After that came second declention nouns.
Have fun. I can't remember anything in Greek anymore and it's only been 4 years since graduating from seminary.
Yeah, verbs seem to be a standard place to start with learning a language (amo, amas, amat....), but using the Mounce book for Greek you get through 14 chapters before he introduces verbs. Looking ahead, I'm thinking he just didn't want to scare anyone away.
Is that pic from life of brian?
Peace,
Chris
Yeah, it is. I wanted a picture of the centurion holding his sword to Brian's neck because he couldn't remember the case he needed for domum, but I couldn't find that on the web. So this is the result of him writing "Romini ite domum" 100 times.
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