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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

  • ἥξει δὲ ἑπτὰ ἔτη λιμοῦ μετὰ ταῦτα, καὶ ἐπιλήσονται τῆσ πλησμονῆσ τῆσ ἐσομένησ ἐν ὅλῃ Αἰγύπτῳ, καὶ ἀναλώσει ὁ λιμὸσ τὴν γῆν, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 41:30)
  • Ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ πόλεωσ τὰσ τῆσ πόλεωσ εὐσεβείασ ἐπιβάθρασ στυγοῦντεσ εὐχερῶσ ἑαυτοὺσ ἐδίδοσαν ὡσ μεγάλησ τινὸσ κοινωνήσοντεσ εὐκλείασ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐσομένησ τῷ βασιλεῖ συναναστροφῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 2:31)
  • Ἀβυδηνοὶ δέ, διὰ στασιασμὸν τῆσ χώρασ ἀργοῦ γενομένησ, καὶ τῶν μετοίκων οὐ προϊεμένων αὐτοῖσ οὐδὲν διὰ τὸ καὶ ἔτι ὀφείλειν, ἐψηφίσαντο τὸν βουλόμενον τοῖσ γεωργοῖσ δανείζειν, ὡσ ἐργάσωνται, ὡσ πρώτοισ αὐτοῖσ ἐσομένησ τῆσ κομιδῆσ ἐκ τοῦ καρποῦ, τοῖσ δὲ ἄλλοισ ἐκ τῶν λειπομένων. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 63:1)
  • οἳ δ’ εἰσήνεγκαν ὡσ διὰ ταχέων αὐτοῖσ ἐσομένησ τῆσ κομιδῆσ· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 104:2)
  • τοιγαροῦν οὐδ’ ἐπιχειρεῖν τισ ἐτόλμα τῶν γεννικῶν καὶ τὰ αὐτὰ ἐμοὶ προαιρουμένων, ἀλλ’ ἀπέγνωστο παντάπασιν ἡ ἐλευθερία καὶ ἄμαχοσ ἡ τυραννὶσ ἐδόκει, πρὸσ τοσούτουσ ἐσομένησ τῆσ ἐπιχειρήσεωσ. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 6:3)

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