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- What is deponent verb in Greek?
- What are deponent verbs examples?
- Why are there deponent verbs?
- Is Conor a deponent verb?
What is deponent verb in Greek?
The term DEPONENT VERBS (Latin for put down, lay aside) is often used to describe these verbs, since to English speakers it appears that they somehow lost their ACTIVE forms (S 356). These verbs, however, never lost their ACTIVE forms, for they never had any. They are, and were meant to be, MIDDLE VERBS in Greek.
What are deponent verbs examples?
When a Latin verb is passive in form, but has an active meaning, it is called a deponent verb. For example: sequor, sequi, secutus sum (3) means 'to follow' and not 'to be followed'. Even though it appears to be passive, it is translated with an active meaning and can have an object following it.
Why are there deponent verbs?
There is a group of verbs in Latin which have passive forms but active meanings. They are called deponent verbs because they have “laid aside” (dëpönö, -ere) their passive meanings but have retained their passive forms. They are translated only in the active voice.
Is Conor a deponent verb?
Deponent verbs are active in meaning and passive in form. Conor is the present passive first person singular indicative, but because the verb is deponent, it is translated as if it were active.
