Intro Greek Handout Sept 21, 2010

Quiz for Sept 23: Vocab of the adjectives from page 18

First declension endings

Two words to parse (a noun and an adjective)

Assignment: Exercise F from the workbook ch 2 to hand in.

Things to know from this lesson:

Adjectives can have all 3 genders to match (agree with) any noun.

1-2 adj. use 2^nd decl. to agree with masc. and neut. nouns and 1^st decl. endings to agree with fem. nouns.

First declension endings use a or h in the endings. Otherwise, they are the same as 2^nd decl. except sigma on gen. sing. and no sigma on nom. sing. (and all gen. pl. use wn.)

Words using 1^st decl. endings take alpha endings in the singular if the stem ends in e, i or r. Otherwise, use h in singular. (p. 24) If the stem ends in s, c, y, the singular has a in the nom. and acc. and h in the gen. and dat.

Making Translation notes files for the Scripture translation exercises:

The last translation exercise for each chapter is a Scripture passage, and numerous notes are given for things we don’t know yet. The workbook assumes you remember the notes given in previous chapters. Since you probably won’t remember them all, put the items in a file in alphabetical order so you can look them up in subsequent lessons. You can remove items once they become familiar to you.