NT Greek verbs

Trevor Jenkins Trevor.Jenkins at suneidesis.com
Mon May 1 13:17:57 EDT 2000


On Sunday, 30 April, 2000 19:59:00, yochanan bitan <ButhFam at compuserve.com>
wrote:

> tw Pete Slevin cairein
>
> a Greek 501 verbs isn't a bad idea.

As a Little-Greeker I tremble in fear and trepidation when I say this to
Randall Buth: I disagree.

One of the least used books amongst my Swedish language books is "201
Swedish Verbs". It's been nearly 15 years since I started with Swedish and
in all that time I can recall only using 201 once (to find the conjugations
of "att beda" to pray as it happens). It just does not get used. I reason
that I'd do the same with a 501 Greek Verbs.

> Of course, such would be more useful for an unlimited corpus of Roman Koine
> period texts.

I've had more success with this approach in my study of Swedish, i.e.
reading texts instead of learning verb forms that are not used in practice.
And I anticapte that my continued reading of the NT texts (and perhaps the
non-canonical books) will provide me with a similar increase in vocabulary
and facility with Greek.

Apart from (Swedish) dictionaries the most useful reference text I have is
Bevingade Ord, which is the closest thing to BAGD. And should that ever
appear in August I've saved Jim West's recent message ...

Regards, Trevor

British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living
language. So recognise it now.

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