[B-Greek] Grammar: "i will have loosed"
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Aug 3 14:45:48 EDT 2006
On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:06 PM, thomas wrote:
> ΚΑΛΗΜέΡΑ,
You might check out the transliteration scheme at http://
metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/faq.txt
>
> I am learning κοινή Greek independently and can't seem to find
> the future perfect, active, indicative, 1st person, singular of LYW
> (λύω) in the book I'm using.
>
> I did find on Harry Foundalis' website an entry for "ancient" Greek
> (most likely Attic) for the above as λελυκώς ἔχω LELUKWS
> EXW, but can't seem to find this in κοινη Greek.
The transliteration is tricky here: the standard BG scheme uses "X"
for Xi and "C" for Chi. The form you cite in Unicode is actually a
periphrastic perfect active, equivalent to LELUKA; the equivalent
future perfect form would be LELUKWS hEXW; theoretically there could
be a LELUSW.
The place to look for this sort of thing is Smyth: §584 (http://
tinyurl.com/mxh42), §600-601 (http://tinyurl.com/pmq3y).
There are very few authentic future perfects even in Classical Attic,
but here's one in the GNT that might be called a future perfect:
EIDHSOUSIN ("they will know") in Heb 8:11, but inasmuch as the
perfect-tense form OIDA really bears present-tense sense, EIDHSOUSIN
really functions as a simple future.
We do see occasional future perfect middles -- always periphrastic
forms; a celebrated instance of it is Mt 16:19 with ESTAI DEDEMENON
and ESTAI LELUMENON.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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