greek future passive

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 21 23:35:23 EDT 1999


At 2:03 AM +0200 9/22/99, Johann Oaklands wrote:
>Hi
>
>Can someone please idicate to me the meaning of the Greek future passive.
>For example, would it refer to an event or action which will take place at
>some future time, or does it refer to the fact that in the future time spot
>mentioned, the event will have taken place or the action will already be in
>place, or all or none of these?  Thank you,

I assume you're referring to the -QH- forms, such as LUQHSETAI; It's just
simple future, as would be a future middle or a future active. It's not to
be confused with a future perfect, normally a periphrastic form with
perfect participle and future of EIMI (e.g. ESTAI DEDEMENON), which points
not so much to a future event but to a consequence of completed action that
will obtain at a future time.


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