Test prep

Question 1

What are the 4 passive deponent verbs that translate as active?

Answer 1

βουλομαι, φοβεομαι, ἀποκρινομαι, πορευομαι

Question 2

Explain Periphrastic’s with examples (What is a periphrastic construction?)

Answer 2

Imp/Fut of εἰμι makes a pres participle translate as Imp/Fut. But if part is perf, then it is translated as perf.

Question 3

What are conditional sentences, and what are the 3 types?

Answer 3

1. Basic: εἰ in protasis
2. Indefinite: ἐαν+sub=undefined protasis (if protasis is true…) (…ever)
3. Contrary to fact: ἀν in apodosis (clear protasis isn’t true)

Question 4

What kind of endings do the participles take in each voice?

Answer 4

Middle participles take noun endings. Active participles take πας endings BUT Nom (ων)

Question 5

What is the Subjunctive and what are its 6 unique uses?

Answer 5

The mood of doubtful assertion:
1. Indefinite clause: ἀν+sub (…ever)
2. Purpose clause: ἱνα+sub=’in order that’
3. Exhortation: 1st Plur Sub=”let us”
4. Deliberation: 1st= ‘should…?’
5. Prohibition (Aorist subjunctive replaces Aorist Imperative in prohibitions)
6. Emphatic negative future (οὐ μη+Aorist subjunctive=ENF)

Question 6

What are the 3 obscure realities of the Infinitive?

Answer 6

1. The subject of the Inf goes in the Acc
2. ὡστε+Inf= ‘with the result that’
3. Articular Inf means putting the Neu Sing article in front of Inf to make it into an ‘-ing’ word (judging)

Question 7

How can we translate the participle in its two tenses?

Answer 7

1. Present (‘untying’, ‘while’, ‘as’)
2. Aorist (‘having untied’ ‘when’)

Question 8

In what order should we parse both regular verbs, participles and infinitives?

Answer 8

1. Regular (TVMPN.Lex)
2. Participle (TVMCGN.Lex)
3. Infinitives (TVM.Lex)

Question 9

List everything that could come up in parsing (TVMPNCG)

Answer 9

T: Pres, Fut, Imperfect, Aor, Perf, Plu
V: Active, Middle, Passive
M: Ind, Part, Imperative, Inf, Sub
P: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
N: Sing, Plur
C: Nom, Acc, Gen, Dat
G: Masc, Fem, Neu

Question 10

As well as its use as a pronoun, αὐτος can be used as an adjective, in which case it has two different meanings, depending on its position:

Answer 10

• Adjective meaning ‘same’ Normal attributive position (between article and noun)
• Emphatic adjective (himself, herself, itself, themselves) Coming before the article (predicative position) ‘for emphasis’

Question 11

Genitive absolute

Answer 11

A noun with a participle agreeing with it which is ‘separated off’ from the rest of the sentence.

Question 12

What is the basic meaning of the perfect and pluperfect verb tenses?

Answer 12

Past action with a present effect (P). Past state arising from event in the remote past (Pp)

Question 13

“Antecedent of the pronoun” meaning?

Answer 13

“antecedent of the pronoun” refers to the word or phrase that a pronoun (like he, she, it, or the Greek autos) replaces or refers back to. “When Peter arrived, HE went straight to the house.”