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εἰμί

-μι athematic Verb; 전접어 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰμί ἔσομαι

Structure: έ̓ς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Sense

  1. I am

Note

현재 직설법 중 2인칭 단수만 제외하고 나머지는 모두 전접어임. 현재 직설법 3인칭 단수의 경우 종종 강조의 목적으로 페눌트에 강세가 오기도 함.

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἦ, ἦν ἦσθα ἦν
Dual ῆ̓στον ή̓στην
Plural ῆ̓μεν ῆ̓τε ῆ̓σαν

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πάρεστι δὲ τῆσδ’ ἐπὶ νηὸσ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα νέεσθαι, ὅπῃ φίλον, εἴτε μετ’ Αἰᾶν, εἶτε μετ’ ἀφνειὴν θείου πόλιν Ὀρχομενοῖο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 20:5)
  • τοῖσ τε γὰρ τελευτήσασι καὶ τοῖσ ζῶσιν οὕτωσ ἂν προσφιλέστατοι εἶτε καὶ ῥᾷστοι θεραπεύειν τε καὶ θεραπεύεσθαι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 101:2)
  • ναὶ μὰ Δί’, ἔφασαν, καὶ πολύσ γε ὡσ ἐγγὺσ ἤδη εἶτε προσιόντεσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 12:6)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ ἀρέσκει ὑμῖν λατρεύειν Κυρίῳ, ἐκλέξασθε ὑμῖν αὐτοῖσ σήμερον, τίνι λατρεύσητε, εἴτε τοῖσ θεοῖσ τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν, τοῖσ ἐν τῷ πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ, εἴτε τοῖσ θεοῖσ τῶν Ἀμορραίων, ἐν οἷσ ὑμεῖσ κατοικεῖτε ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ αὐτῶν. ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ ἡ οἰκία μου λατρεύσομεν Κυρίῳ, ὅτι ἅγιόσ ἐστι. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 24:15)
  • εἴτε γὰρ ἠσέβησα, οὐκ οἶδα τῇ ψυχῇ, πλὴν ὅτι ἀφαιρεῖταί μου ἡ ζωή. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 9:21)
  • μιᾷ γὰρ ἁλύσει σκότουσ πάντεσ ἐδέθησαν. εἴτε πνεῦμα συρίζον ἢ περὶ ἀμφιλαφεῖσ κλάδουσ ὀρνέων ἦχοσ εὐμελὴσ ἢ ρυθμὸσ ὕδατοσ πορευομένου βίᾳ ἢ κτύποσ ἀπηνὴσ καταρριπτομένων πετρῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 17:18)
  • τοῦτο τὸ κρίμα παρὰ Κυρίου πάσῃ σαρκί, καὶ τί ἀπαναίνῃ ἐν εὐδοκίᾳ Ὑψίστου̣ εἴτε δέκα εἴτε ἑκατὸν εἴτε χίλια ἔτη, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ᾅδου ἐλεγμὸσ ζωῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 41:4)

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