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by Barry Hofstetter
September 26th, 2021, 8:50 pm
Forum: Learning Paradigms
Topic: Determining Genitive Masculine and Neuter, and Dative Plural Gender
Replies: 13
Views: 6642

Re: Determining Genitive Masculine and Neuter, and Dative Plural Gender

Maybe he meant masculine accusative and neuter nominative/accusative. ?? Sorry, I mean genitive singular, masculine (οῦ) and neutor (οῦ). The articles for them are the same as well τοῦ. The articles on the example you gave are different even though the case ending is the same. With the genitive sin...
by Barry Hofstetter
September 26th, 2021, 8:11 am
Forum: Learning Paradigms
Topic: Determining Genitive Masculine and Neuter, and Dative Plural Gender
Replies: 13
Views: 6642

Re: Determining Genitive Masculine and Neuter, and Dative Plural Gender

How do you tell if a noun is genitive masculine or nominative neuter? They both have the same article before the noun and the same case ending on the noun. EDIT: Also, along this line, how do you tell what gender a dative plural is since all three have the same case ending (ων) and article (τῶν). A...
by Barry Hofstetter
September 22nd, 2021, 9:30 am
Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
Topic: Gospel of Mark as Classical and High Koine Greek
Replies: 13
Views: 7719

Re: Gospel of Mark as Classical and High Koine Greek

In addition to the elements that Stephen pointed out, Mark's style is largely paratactic. He uses far less subordination than a comparable classical author would.
by Barry Hofstetter
September 22nd, 2021, 8:56 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Help Figuring Out What Definition and Gender to Use
Replies: 3
Views: 4176

Re: Help Figuring Out What Definition and Gender to Use

It's good that you are getting started. My "pointers" are: 1) Finite verbs in Greek are not marked for gender, only person and number. When used without a nominative subject in the sentence, we render according to whether it's first, second or third person, but any idea of gender has to be...
by Barry Hofstetter
September 19th, 2021, 8:43 am
Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
Topic: Can a Case Change, Change Syllabification?
Replies: 6
Views: 5059

Re: Can a Case Change, Change Syllabification?

Regardless of how Mounce pronounces it, case change does not change syllabification.
by Barry Hofstetter
September 18th, 2021, 9:57 am
Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
Topic: Omission of the copula
Replies: 23
Views: 12290

Re: Omission of the copula

Are you talking about these particular phrases, or the omission of the copula in general? For the latter, if you read a fair amount of Greek, this is something that becomes almost automatic. No verb in the sentence, so what do you supply? A form of εἰμί, unless the context demands something else. I ...
by Barry Hofstetter
September 16th, 2021, 12:22 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello from South Africa
Replies: 3
Views: 4978

Re: Hello from South Africa

Welcome, Ben. Plenty of people here willing to help and support you on your journey. It sounds as if you are off to a good start this time, and have a method which really works for you. A few suggestions: 1) Intermediate and advanced grammars are usually reference grammars, not teaching grammars. Yo...
by Barry Hofstetter
September 16th, 2021, 10:50 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Oral Latin/Greek
Replies: 7
Views: 7496

Re: Oral Latin/Greek

I'm not sure that my point is that G/T teachers are more open to mixing and matching, so much as that G/T teachers think of communicative methods as one option, not as a totally fundamental shift in how they ought to approach language teaching. It's also fair to say that the number of communicative...
by Barry Hofstetter
September 16th, 2021, 9:40 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: εἰς μακράν in Acts 2:39 - "far off" in the FUTURE?
Replies: 7
Views: 4911

Re: εἰς μακράν in Acts 2:39 - "far off" in the FUTURE?

Correction in my post: Paul > Luke Luke addresses Jews as well as Gentiles (see: Nolland; Luke's Readers 1977), so μακραν doesn't necessarily mean the Diaspora-Jews, but all regions of the world. Jean Different ways to read the text, none of them mutually exclusive, and all of them encouraging from...
by Barry Hofstetter
September 15th, 2021, 5:27 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Oral Latin/Greek
Replies: 7
Views: 7496

Re: Oral Latin/Greek

There’s an interesting recent post by the Patrologist pointing out that the grammar-translation teachers seem to be more open to mixing and matching techniques than the communicative approaches teachers. https://thepatrologist.com/2021/09/13/why-are-you-ci-folk-jerks/ The argument seems to be that,...

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