[B-Greek] "I live" and "I lived"
Doug Hoxworth
dhoxworth at charter.net
Mon Sep 15 14:19:33 EDT 2003
><Kingston>
>In Greek (ancient or Biblical) the statements "I live in Athens" and "I lived in Athens" are morphologically identical, the difference in meaning being a matter of context.
<doug>
i would say false though i'm not exactly sure what is
being said. one statement has the verb in the present
tense and the other is past tense in English. in Greek the
verb "live" would be approximated by the 1st person
singular present indicative active of ZAW as ZW AQHNAIS
while "lived" might be approximated by the 1st person
singular aorist indicative active of ZAW as EZHSA AQHNAIS
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