- What is aorist passive subjunctive?
- What does aorist passive mean?
- What does aorist mean in subjunctive?
- What is passive aorist in Ancient Greek?
What is aorist passive subjunctive?
Aorist passive subjunctives are built on the stem of the 6th principal part. As in the aorist active and middle subjunctive forms, the primary tense endings rather than the secondary tense endings are used.
What does aorist passive mean?
Basics: The Aorist is used for past time and portrays perfective aspect (portraying the action as a bounded whole, or in summary fashion without reference to the way it unfolds in time). As a Passive tense, the subject is the patient of the verbal action: “he was eaten,” “they were killed.”
What does aorist mean in subjunctive?
Thus when a subjunctive verb is used prospectively to refer to a future event or situation (e.g. "I am afraid it may happen"), the aorist is used to refer to an event, the present to a situation (or habitual series of events):
What is passive aorist in Ancient Greek?
Aorist Passive Participle
Recall that the marker –θη– means an AORIST is PASSIVE or INTRANSITIVE. In the participle, the –η– shortens to –ε-. As a result, the pattern for the AORIST PASSIVE PARTICIPLE is: verb stem + θε + ντ + 3-1-3 adjective endings.