NT 500 Greek I Session 5

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NT 500Greek I- Session 5

• Using the texts of Dr. Bill Mounce

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Translation Procedure

• Split sentence into parts
• First, do what you know
• Translate above each word
• Translate definite article as the

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Prepositions

• Words that define relationships
• The word following the preposition is usually
  called the object of the preposition
• The meaning of prepositions can change dependent
  upon the case used with the preposition

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Clauses

• A clause contains a subject and a verb
• A dependent clause, however, cannot stand by
  itself

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ejimiv

• Substantive verbs do not take a direct object
• They normally have a noun in the nominative case
  following it.
• We say that the noun is in the predicate
  nominative
• The object almost always follows the substantive
  verb

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Greek prepositions

• Greek prepositions usually are followed by
  genitive, dative, or accusative cases
• When using prepositions with the genitive,
  dative, or accusative, you will probably NOT use
  the key word you have been given.

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Greek prepositions

• Prepositions are not inflected words.
• All changes to prepositions come dependent upon
  whether or not the word following begins with a
  consonant or vowel and whether or not vowel has a
  rough breathing mark.

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Greek prepositions

• It is suggested that the following pattern be
  used in the understanding of prepositions in a
  sentence
• __________ with the __________ means __________

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Greek prepositions

• It is suggested that the following pattern be
  used in the understanding of prepositions in a
  sentence
• _____en_____ with the ___dative_______ means
  ______in____

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Greek prepositions

• There are usually two Greek words that indicate
  a dependent clause
• iJna
• oti.
• You will never find the main subject and verb of
  the sentence in a dependent clause

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verb- eijmiv

• The basic part of a verb is called the stem.
• Personal endings are added to the stem of a verb
  to show person and number

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verb- eijmiv

• There are three persons and two numbers
• 1S I
• 2S you
• 3S he/she/it/there
• 1P we
• 2P you/yall
• 3Pthey

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verb- eijmiv

• eijmiv is the most common verb in the Greek
  language.
• It is also irregular in form
• The root of eijmiv is es-

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Greek Verb- eijmiv

• singular plural
• 1st eijmiv I am ejsmevn We are
• 2nd ei\\ You are ejstev You (all) are
• 3rd ejstiv(n) He is eijsiv(n) They are

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Movable nu (n)

• The movable nu is often added to the end of the
  verb when the following word begins with a vowel

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Translating

• Begin dividing your sentences into sections
• Separate your prepositional phrase from other
  parts of the sentence
• Begin to see what word the prepositional phrase
  modifies.
• It is usually the verb.

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Assignment

• Workbook-
• Complete Parsing section 1-10
• Complete warm-up section a-h
• Complete translation section 1-10
• Peruse ch. 9