[B-Greek] Future tenses

Jeffrey T. Requadt jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 10 15:40:19 EDT 2004


1 and 2 Future (or Aorist) don't have a difference in meaning; they're
simply two different patterns/paradigms that verbs can fall into. A verb has
either a 1 Future Passive or a 2 Future Passive, if that makes sense. This
is from Mounce's chapter on 1 Aorist (which is the same idea): "The Greek
has two different ways of forming the aorist tense, somewhat as English has
two different ways of forming the past tense. The Greek tense parallel to
the English 'Regular' formation is called the *first aorist* while the
'irregular' is called the *second aorist*... A Greek verb will be either
first or second aorist, but not both. For example, in Greek, 'swim' would
become 'swam' or 'swimmed' but never both." (section 22.3 in first ed.,
1993). Hope this makes sense.

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Kevin,

Thanks for your response.  What I don't understand is 1st future tense and 
2nd future tense.  In English, what is 1st tense and what is 2nd tense.
Future 
tense to me is anytime beyond 'now' ?  What is a '1st aorist act' first and 
second?

Doug Pickrel
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, TX

> > In a message dated 10/8/2004 2:20:51 PM Central
> > Daylight Time, 
> > cierpke at prodigy.net writes:
> > 
> > 
> > > The Future tense has two passive forms. the 1st
> > future
> > > and the 2nd Future. The 1st Future Tense uses:
> > > 
> > > the aorist passive tense stem (without the
> > augment) +
> > > the tense formative of theta eta sigma + the
> > > connecting/thematic vowel + the primary passive
> > > personal ending to form the verb
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The 2nd Future Tense uses:
> > > the aorist passive tense stem (without the
> > augment) +
> > > the tense formative of eta sigma + the
> > > connecting/thematic vowel + the primary passive
> > > personal ending to form the verb
> > 
> >
> 
> 
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