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How the Greek Verb Form Behaves? Person and Number |
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Written by Evangelia Teka BA(Hons) MA MSc
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As you have probably guessed by now, Greek is a highly inflected language (i.e. addition of an ending or other element to the basic form of a word to change its meaning or function). The verb form consists of the stem (the ‘base’ of the verb, e.g. ‘παίζ-’ in ‘play’) and an inflectional ending (what goes after the ‘base’ of the verb to indicate a number of grammatical categories, e.g. ‘παίζ-ω). |
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Introduction of the Greek Verb Clause: Syntactical Values |
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Written by Evangelia Teka, MA, MSc
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Syntactical Values
A verb is a word such as ‘drive’, ‘travel’ and ‘swim’ which says what someone or something does or what happens to them or to give information about them. In this issue, we will be looking at the ways the Greek verb clause behaves in a sentence (syntactical attitude of a verb).
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‘ A Day with the Letter ‘T’! |
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Written by Evangelia Teka, MA, MSc
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Have you ever considered that sometimes all there’s to know in a new language is already there in your own one? Fortunately enough, English is an international language which means that a lot of English words are borrowed, used as well as abused in other languages. So which one is ‘the alter ego’ [το αλτέρ ίγκο] of the Greek language?
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Written by Evangelia Teka
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A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: “I’m praying, but I can’t think of exactly the right words, so I’m just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I’m thinking.”
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Is the Greek language as difficult as claimed? |
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Written by Evangelia Teka
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‘It’s all Greek to me!’ How many times have you heard this phrase? It is common knowledge that it refers to something, usually not even Greek, unintelligible or very difficult to understand.
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