Learn to Read New Testament Greek
Course text by David Alan Black (Broadman & Holman, 1994)
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Lesson 3
Present and Future Active Indicative
Paradigm Learning Example
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Terms to Note:
- conjugation
- connecting vowel
- future time morpheme
- present active principal part
- future active principal part
- internal subject, external subject
- movable "nu"
- allomorph
- simple present, progressive present, historical present
- gnomic future
- copula, copulative verb
- enclitic
- parse
Nuance of Tense
Black (section 22, pg. 19) mentions various uses of the present and future tenses. For a more extensive list of present tense nuances, download the file:
Nuance of Tense in Present Indicative Greek Verbs - pdf / doc
Vocabulary Pronuncation
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Translation Exercises
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