Present Active Imperative verbs give commands. These commands have an imperfective aspect. In other words, they command for an action to happen continuously or repeatedly. In…
Ancient Greek #4: Verbs- Present Active Infinitive
Present Active Infinitive verbs describe actions that either complement another verb (e.g. I want to teach), or that function as a noun (e.g. To teach is difficult.) As…
Ancient Greek #3: Verbs- Present Active Indicative
Present Active Indicative verbs denote actions occurring in the present. These verbs can refer to an action occurring at the moment of the sentence (e.g. I am…
Ancient Greek #2: Verbs- Introduction
Greek verbs consists of a stem and an inflection (a suffix or prefix that denotes the properties of the verb). Each verb has up to…
Ancient Greek #1: Greek Alphabet
The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, most of which were adapted from Phoenician letters. Since we won’t use transliteration (Latin letters) in the Greek…
Classical Greek 2: Present Active Indicative Verbs
This post is part of a series of Classical Greek lessons I’m compiling.
Today, we’ll cover present active indicative verbs, but before getting our hands dirty, it would be good to go over some basic terminology:
Verbs are “action” words (or, at least, that’s what I learned in school). Specifically, they are words that denote an action, a state, or an occurrence. Verbs in Greek have several properties, including the following: Read more
Translation of John 1:1
These are my study notes on John 1:1, which are part of an independent translation project I carried out in order to practice my Greek….
Recursos para praticar o português
Out of the foreign languages I speak, Portuguese is my strongest one (well, after English). Over the years, I’ve compiled a very short list of…
Latin Practice 2 – Vocab, Conjugation
VOCABULARY (VOCĀBVLA)
mē – me, myself
quid – what
nihil – nothing
nōn – not
saepe – often
sī – if
amō, amāre, amāvī, amātum – to love, amābō tē – please
cōgitō, cōgitāre, cōgitāvī, cōgitātum – think, ponder, consider, plan
dēbeō, dēbēre, dēbuī, dēbitum – owe, ought, must, should
dō, dare, dedī, datum – give, offer
errō, errāre, errāvī, errātum – wander, err, go astray, make a mistake, be mistaken
laudō, laudāre, laudāvī, laudātum – praise
moneō, monēre, monuī, monitum – remind, advise, warn
salveō, salvēre – be well, be in good health, salvē, salvēte – hello, greetings
servō, servāre, servāvī, servātum – preserve, save, keep, guard
cōnservō, cōnservāre, cōnservāvī, cōnservātum – preserve, conserve, maintain
terreō, terrēre, terruī, territum – frighten, terrify
valeō, valēre, valuī, valitūrum – to be strong, have power, be well, valē, valēte – goodbye
videō, vidēre, vīdī, vīsum – see, observe, understand
vocō, vocāre, vocāvī, vocātum – call, summon
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Latin practice 1- Present Verbs
I’ve found some free time at nights before bed, and I’ve decided to use that time to read through my copy of Wheelock’s Latin, a book that, until now, I’ve only been using as a reference on the rare occasion when I run into the language.
As I read through the book, I’ll write these posts as a way to document my progress and practice. Kind of like an online practice notebook of some sort (since I’m bad at keeping my physical notebooks). As a disclaimer, I’m not an expert in Latin, I’m merely a beginner; so the observations I make in these posts are merely what I understand from each chapter as I read it.
Today’s topic is Present Verbs, from Chapter 1 of the book. Read more