[B-Greek] Future Tense Help

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Tue Dec 28 07:07:04 EST 2004


At 06:59 AM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
>Dear B-Greek,
>
>I've been studying Greek for 4-5 months now and am working my way through 
>Dobson's Learn NT Greek (I'm on chapter 26 of 52). I've reached future 
>tenses ("I will/will not") and I'm stumped. It seems that verb stems can 
>be very irregular when it comes to the future (different stems entirely as 
>well as shortened). Do I just have to learn each verb's variation as it 
>comes up?

Pretty much, yes.


>The only other grammar book I have is Wallace's Beyond the Basics but that 
>doesn't help (I bought it for when I've completed Dobson and I start on 
>Mounce's Graded Reader).
>
>Any advice on tackling future tenses would be gratefully appreciated!

Find a verb chart- for instance in Summer's Elementary Greek grammar there 
was (at least 20 years ago when I studied Elementary Greek) a nice pull out 
chart with all the verb forms on it.  Verb charts are very, very useful- as 
you can generally plug in the stem and viola- the complete form is visible.

That said, there's nothing quite as useful as actually memorizing (I know- 
gasp!!) verb forms. (Along with noun forms as well I might add).

Best,

Jim


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