An Elementary Greek Grammar

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Ginn and Heath, 1879 - Greek language - 393 pages
 

Contents

Contract Nouns of First Declension 30
30
Dialects of First Declension
31
1 Paradigms of Second Declension 32
32
Attic Second Declension
33
Dialects of Second Declension
34
NOTE Comparison of Caseendings in the Three Declensions
35
Nominative Singular of Third Declension 36
36
Accusative Singular of Third Declension
37
Vocative Singular of Third Declension
38
Dative Plural of Third Declension
39
5156 Paradigms of Nouns of Third Declension with Stems in Σ or Vowel Stems chiefly contract 4247
42
Syncopated Nouns of Third Declension 47
47
Gender of Third Declension
49
ADJECTIVES 6264 Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions 53
53
Contract Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions 5456
54
Adjectives of the Third Declension 56
57
ADVERBS AND THEIR COMPARIS
67
Reflexive Pronouns
73
49
79
sions
89
Meaning of the Forms of the Verb
95
Syllabic and Temporal Augment and Reduplication
99
Perfect and Pluperfect Middle and Passive
111
defined
119
Augment of Perfect Pluperfect and Future Perfect 120
120
Attic Reduplication
122
Syllabic Augment prefixed to a Vowel
123
Omission of Augment
124
Verbal Stems 107 108 Formation of Present from Simple Stem Eight Classes of Verbs in w 125131
125
Modification of the Stem in certain Tenses 131135
131
Formation of the Seven TenseStems 135141
135
Table of TenseStems
141
Personal Endings 112 Table of Personal Endings Connecting Vowel 142144
142
1 Connecting Vowels of the Indicative 144
144
Personal Endings of Indicative with Connecting Vowel 145
145
Terminations of the Subjunctive
146
Terminations of the Imperative 148
148
Terminations of the Infinitive Participles and Verbal Adjectives 149
149
Periphrastic Forms 150
150

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