αγωνιζομαι
Posted: April 12th, 2012, 8:15 am
I've been taking to heart the many exhortations on b-greek to try to learn to form my own Greek sentences... as you've always claimed, it's a very helpful practice. Thanks!
I want to paraphrase 2 Tim 4:7 for my students, and can't figure out what to do with ηγωνισμαι.
I'm wanting to make the 1st person singular verbs into 2nd person plural, so instead of "I fought the good fight" etc it will be "you (pl) have fought the good fight" etc. But I see that the 1st person plural perfect middle indicative omits the connecting vowel omicron, making the ending ισμαι. So then in the 2nd person plural would the 2 sigmas just contract into one? ηγωνισθε?
And, just out of curiosity, for future new sentences, what would the 3rd person plural be?
ηγωνισνται (which sounds like way too many consonants one after the other) or ηγωνισονται or something else?
For what it's worth, I teach using Croy. He says of the perfect middle indicative:
"Note also that the normal primary middle/passive endings are joined directly to the verb stem. There is no variable vowel. This causes no problem with a verb whose stem ends in a vowel, such as λυω. But for many verbs whose stems end in a consonant, certain changes occur for the sake of euphony. The resultant forms... will usually be recognizable..."
His examples:
γεγραπται (it has been written)
δεδιωγμαι (I have been persecuted)
βεβαπτισμαι (I have been baptized)
I also poked around a bit in Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek, to no avail. I can't seem to find an example of a verb whose lexical form ends in -ζω or -ιζομαι, in either the 2nd person plural or the 3rd person plural perfect middle or passive indicative.
Thanks in advance for any examples, or for insight into what one would expect to happen morphologically.
I've been studying Greek for a quite a long time, and am finding it extremely challenging to discipline myself to form words myself as opposed to just "knowing them when I see them."
I want to paraphrase 2 Tim 4:7 for my students, and can't figure out what to do with ηγωνισμαι.
I'm wanting to make the 1st person singular verbs into 2nd person plural, so instead of "I fought the good fight" etc it will be "you (pl) have fought the good fight" etc. But I see that the 1st person plural perfect middle indicative omits the connecting vowel omicron, making the ending ισμαι. So then in the 2nd person plural would the 2 sigmas just contract into one? ηγωνισθε?
And, just out of curiosity, for future new sentences, what would the 3rd person plural be?
ηγωνισνται (which sounds like way too many consonants one after the other) or ηγωνισονται or something else?
For what it's worth, I teach using Croy. He says of the perfect middle indicative:
"Note also that the normal primary middle/passive endings are joined directly to the verb stem. There is no variable vowel. This causes no problem with a verb whose stem ends in a vowel, such as λυω. But for many verbs whose stems end in a consonant, certain changes occur for the sake of euphony. The resultant forms... will usually be recognizable..."
His examples:
γεγραπται (it has been written)
δεδιωγμαι (I have been persecuted)
βεβαπτισμαι (I have been baptized)
I also poked around a bit in Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek, to no avail. I can't seem to find an example of a verb whose lexical form ends in -ζω or -ιζομαι, in either the 2nd person plural or the 3rd person plural perfect middle or passive indicative.
Thanks in advance for any examples, or for insight into what one would expect to happen morphologically.
I've been studying Greek for a quite a long time, and am finding it extremely challenging to discipline myself to form words myself as opposed to just "knowing them when I see them."