learning stems
James Forsyth
james at bigbeing.com.au
Thu Jul 4 05:05:14 EDT 2002
Hi Matthew,
Try juxtaposing the following verbs:
TIMAW
LALEW
POIEW
FILEW
FANEROW
DHLOW
KHRUSSW
PRASSW
LEGW
AIRW
-AGGELLW
BALLW
Compare the beginnings of the perfect active, perfect mid/pas & aorist
passive for LEGW and LAMBANW. For the ending of these three cases of
LAMBANW, memorise the following pattern (which should look like a pyramid):
F
MM
(M)F (Attic in parentheses).
For GINOMAI, notice how the following rhyme (sp?) fits around the paradigm:
MAI MAI MHN GEG GEG MAI THN.
Compare the aorist passive of GRAFW with the same for -AGGELLW (but note
Attic inserts a theta between the lambda and eta in the latter).
For the intransitive of ISTHMI, draw a box around the two parts which begin
with ESTH (disregard breathings for a moment); draw another box around the
two epsilons with a rough breathing; place another box around the two parts
which start with ESTA (disregarding breathings again).
The first aorist ending and second aorist are in alphabetical order.
To quickly memorise the aorist actives of BALLW and LAMBANW, place them
next to each other.
Draw a curly bubble around the first letter of the present active, future
active and perfect active of AKOUW, and an inverse curly bubble around the
remaining tenses.
Compare the sigma in the perfect mid/pas and aorist passive of AKOUW with
the same in GINWSKW.
Take advantage of all the many additions (prefixes? prepositions?) made to
the word ERCOMAI.
Compare the tables of as many grammars as possible to get rid of the
hyphens and replace them with words. For example, many books omit the
perfect mid/pas of hORAW. It's best to include it (hEWRAMAI).
So many just come naturally after a while, but are difficult to explain.
Don't worry about taking Mounce's advice re: not memorising too many
principal parts. If you're a regular public transport user you've got time
for anything! (I, for one, do intend to be a regular public transport user
"throughout my ministry" see BBG p372).
James Forsyth
At 07:11 AM 3/07/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello:
>
>I am learning Koine using the Mounce text, and have found it a good book. My
>only deficiency is that I am going at this entirely alone. I know all the
>paradigms cold, but a big challenge seems to be to learn the principal
>parts of
>verbs. I could stare at the book and memorize, but does anyone have a
>recommendation/book for how to do this?
>
>Matthew E. Ferris
>
>
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