[B-Greek] Object of verbs

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 30 05:59:25 EDT 2006


I rather hesitate to tell someone to rely on English in order to understand what is going on in Greek, but in this case it frequently works.  
   
  In a number of Greek verbs which take a dative object there is some relationship involved (note that these are simplistic definitions):
   
  PROSKARTEREW -- to be faithful TO someone
  PREPW -- to be pleasing or suitable TO someone
  ECESTIN -- it is authorized or proper FOR someone
  PROSERXOMAI -- to move TOWARDS someone, something
  And, as Yul Brynner continually said in "The King and I" "Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera."
   
  Other than that, all I can say is "Look it up in the dictionary."
   
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Marion Fox <mrfox1 at gmail.com> wrote:
  How do we know when the object of a verb is in a case other than the
accusative case? For example, some verbs take their objects in the dative
case, some in the genitive case.



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Marion Fox

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