2013 edition Wilfred E. Major wmajor@lsu.edu

1. Ancient Greek for Everyone:A New Digital Resource for Beginning GreekUnit 9 part 2: Unorthodox Futures 2013 edition Wilfred E. Major wmajor@lsu.edu

2. Ancient Greek for Everyone This class AGE Unit 9 part 2: Unorthodox Futures • This unit adds the other principal voice in Greek, the middle. • This part covers a quirk in the future of some Greek verbs.

3. Ancient Greek for Everyone VOCABULARY: • For reasons unclear now, and obscure already in antiquity, some verbs that are regularly active in the present tense become deponent in the future tense. These verbs are said to have a “deponent future.” • These verbs retain active meaning in the future, even though the forms are middle. The challenge of conveying middle or passive meaning in the future of these verbs is complex, and a topic reserved for advanced study.

4. Ancient Greek for Everyone Building a Greek verb • Following are two examples of verbs with a “deponent future.” • Recall that the verbεἰμί “be,” despite its irregularities in the present tense, has the stem ἐσ-. This verb is regular in the future tense, but it is deponent. • The model verb λαμβάνω“take” is also deponent in the future tense.

5. Ancient Greek for Everyone • ἔσομαι • ἔσει/ῃ • ἔσεται • ἐσόμεθα • ἔσεσθε • ἔσονται ἔσεσθαι Building a Greek Verb The Future Indicative and Infinitive Middle of εἰμί

6. Ancient Greek for Everyone Building a Greek verb • Recall that adding a -σ- to the stem marks a verb as in the future tense. • So now the stem looks (and sounds) like this: • λαβ + σ = “take”  ληψ = “take” (in the future) ALL VERBS, regardless of what endings they use in the present tense, use -ωverb endings in the future tense. Future tense = verb stem + σ + -ωverb endings • This is true in both the active and middle voices.

7. Ancient Greek for Everyone • λήψομαι • λήψει/ῃ • λήψεται • ληψόμεθα • λήψεσθε • λήψονται λήψεσθαι Building a Greek Verb The Future Indicative and Infinitive Middle of λαμβάνω

8. Ancient Greek for Everyone Vocabulary: Principal Parts • Greek verbs can morph into a variety of forms (you now know 28 different forms of a verb). • You have already seen how vocabulary entries have two principal parts: • 1st person singular present indicative active/middle (-μι, -ωor -μαι) • 1stperson singular future indicative active/middle (-ωor -μαι) • Following are the verbs from your vocabulary so far that have deponent futures. As it happens, most -ωverbs that add a ν orσκ to mark the present tense have deponent futures.

9. Ancient Greek for Everyone Future Deponent Vocabulary: Classical • ἀκούω, ἀκούσομαι hear • ἁμαρτ- ἁμαρτάνω, ἁμαρτήσομαι miss, make a mistake • βη-  βαίνω, βήσομαι walk, come, go • συμβαίνω happen, agree, result • βλέπω,βλέψομαι see, look • γνω-  γιγνώσκω, γνώσομαι know, learn, judge, think • ἐσ-  εἰμί, ἔσομαι be • πάρειμι, παρέσομαι be present

10. Ancient Greek for Everyone Future Deponent Vocabulary: Classical • θαν- ἀποθνῄσκω,ἀποθανοῦμαι die • λαβ-  λαμβάνω, λήψομαι take, grab; receive, get • καταλαμβάνω seize, catch up to, arrest • ὑπολαμβάνω take up, reply, suppose • μαθ-  μανθάνω, μαθήσομαι learn • πι- πίνω,πίομαι drink • φεύγω, φεύξομαι flee, run away

11. Ancient Greek for Everyone Future Deponent Vocabulary: NT • ἁμαρτ- ἁμαρτάνω, ἁμαρτήσομαι miss, make a mistake • βη-  βαίνω, βήσομαι walk, come, go • ἀναβαίνω walk up, go aboard, enter • καταβαίνω walk down, descend • γνω-  γινώσκω, γνώσομαι know, learn, judge, think • Notice the change of spelling (γιγνώσκω  γινώσκω) from Classical to Koine. • ἀναγινώσκω read • ἐπιγινώσκωknow, understand

12. Ancient Greek for Everyone Future Deponent Vocabulary: NT • ἐσ-  εἰμί, ἔσομαι be • θαν- ἀποθνῄσκω, ἀποθανοῦμαι die • λαβ-  λαμβάνω, λήψομαι take, grab; receive, get • παραλαμβάνω take, receive, accept • πι- πίνω,πίομαι drink

13. Ancient Greek for Everyone Future Deponent Vocabulary: Core • ἁμαρτάνω, ἁμαρτήσομαι miss, make a mistake • ἀποθνῄσκω, ἀποθανοῦμαι die • βαίνω, βήσομαι walk, come, go • γί(γ)νώσκω, γνώσομαι know, learn, judge, think • εἰμί, ἔσομαι be • λαμβάνω, λήψομαι take, grab; receive, get • πίνω, πίομαι drink

14. Ancient Greek for Everyone VOCABULARY: • The verbs on the following slides all have futures, mostly deponent, with variations or stem changes that are unpredictable or more complex than the patterns presented so far. • These are all very common and important verbs, however, and recognizing these unusual principal parts is essential to reading Greek.

15. Ancient Greek for Everyone Unorthodox Futures Vocabulary: Classical • ἔρχομαι,ἐλεύσομαι come, go • ἔχω, ἕξω andσχήσω have, hold, be • παρέχω provide • ὁράω, ὄψομαιsee • πάσχω,πείσομαι suffer, experience • πίπτω,πεσοῦμαι fall

16. Ancient Greek for Everyone Unorthodox Futures Vocabulary: Classical • πλέω, πλεύσομαι andπλευσοῦμαιsail • πυνθάνομαι,πεύσομαι learn, hear, inquire • τίκτω,τέξομαιgive birth • τυγχάνω,τεύξομαιhappen, meet • φέρω, οἴσωcarry, bring • διαφέρωspread, differ • συμφέρω benefit, profit

17. Ancient Greek for Everyone Unorthodox Futures Vocabulary: NT (New Testament) • ἔρχομαι, ἐλεύσομαι come, go • διέρχομαι come, go through • εἰσέρχομαι come, go into • ἐξέρχομαι come, go out of • προσέρχομαι come, go to • ἐσθίω,φάγομαι eat • ἔχω, ἕξω andσχήσω have, hold, be

18. Ancient Greek for Everyone Unorthodox Futures Vocabulary: NT (New Testament) • ὁράω, ὄψομαιsee • πάσχω, πείσομαι suffer, experience • πίπτω, πεσοῦμαι fall • πλέω, πλεύσομαι andπλευσοῦμαιsail • φέρω, οἴσωcarry, bring • προσφέρω offer, present

19. Ancient Greek for Everyone Unorthodox Futures Vocabulary: Core • ἔρχομαι, ἐλεύσομαι come, go • ἔχω, ἕξω andσχήσω have, hold, be • παρέχω provide • ὁράω, ὄψομαιsee • πάσχω, πείσομαι suffer, experience • πίπτω, πεσοῦμαι fall • πλέω, πλεύσομαι andπλευσοῦμαιsail • φέρω, οἴσωcarry, bring