Some Thoughts
Is working out and remembering all the various forms of Classical Greek Verbs a major hassle for you? Some thoughts and advice apart from getting a good dictionary or bookmarking lexicon sites
(Eternal blessings to the person who give me their LSJ)
Depending on how you classify the classes or categories or types there are 8 - 12 main types plus subcategories however basically for most its a case of the ongoing battle of Sigma versus NU !
They either add Sigma for Future and Aorist or change a consonant to C + Sigma
If you're trying to find the stem the pattern works in reverse
This covers - uw -iw aw - ew -ow and various consonant stems BUT
Mi verbs are getting a separate study
Verbs that have retain or drop a final stem n are actually 4 - 5 types
Stems that add nw long vowels plus vw stems that add - anw and sometimes insert an extra nasal m or n like lambano or manthanw
a(i)vw e(i)nw verbs in which the i drops out before the n
unw verbs
I will be posting vocabulary lists and more detail soon starting with the -ue -iw forms
but you say what about final ls and rs ...yes I will discuss them too!
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