[B-Greek] Best book/appendix for Comprehensive Chart of Forms?
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 16:38:41 EDT 2009
On charts and forms, here are some practical tests
for some good, plain everyday words:
What do you do when you want to say
“I am standing”
What should a student say?
ἕστηκα.
And what is the Koine form of ‘you are using’
(from χρῆσθαι XRHSQAI ‘to be using’):
χρᾶσαι. XRASAI
(did your charts tell you χρῇ? that’s not KOINH
and I’m not Dr. Seuss, I know :-)
what is the correct form for
“plan to do it!”
How does the student find it?
προθοῦ ποιῆσαι!
The accent can be tricky because its not like
ὑπόθου! ‘suppose!’
And if they jump down from a chair, what do they
say?
κατεπηδήσαμεν
“Try to do it!”
πειράθητι αὐτὸ ποιῆσαι!
How about ‘we got stuck in the mud?”
Maybe: ἡ ἡμῶν ἄμαξα ἐπάγη ἐν βορβόρῳ.
(Sisera could have used this line with Yael,
though with ἄρμα instead of ἄμαξα.
τό μου ἄρμα ἐπάγη ἐν βορβόρῳ.)
And ‘we will fly to Tel Aviv tomorrow.’ ?
πτησόμεθα εις Τελ Αβιβ αὔριον
‘Will you forget what to say?’
ἐπιλήσῃ τινὸς ὃ δεῖ σε εἰπεῖν ;
Common verbs are one of the keys to fluency
and these need to be accessible in forms that were
in daily use for a 5 year old kid,
Common verbs can be challenging and getting
them accessible for intermediate students is a
challenge, too, not to mention creating the
situations for internalizing them.
ἔρρωσθε
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Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
randallbuth at gmail.com
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