Expertlatin
- What is the middle voice in koine Greek?
- What is the middle voice?
- What is the middle voice in the aorist tense?
- Does modern Greek have middle voice?
What is the middle voice in koine Greek?
The Greek verb has three VOICES, the active, middle, and passive. The active voice is used when the subject of the sentence is the agent of the action described in the verb. The middle voice denotes that the subject is both an agent of an action and somehow concerned with the action.
What is the middle voice?
Noun. middle voice (uncountable) A voice that is neither active nor passive, because the subject of the verb cannot be categorized as either agent or patient, having elements of both.
What is the middle voice in the aorist tense?
The middle voice is used mainly to imply that the subject benefits or suffers directly from the action expressed by the verb. It is often the case, though not always, that the subject also represents the cause of that action.
Does modern Greek have middle voice?
The so-called "middle voice" has been an enduring part of the Greek language for as long as Greek has had a separate recognizable linguistic identity (thus at least since Mycenaean Greek of the fifteenth century B.C. and, to judge from comparative evidence, for several millennia before that as well).
