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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

  • ὦ ξένε, πολλοὶ μὲν καὶ ἄλλοι χρηστοὶ καὶ δεξιοὶ ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ οὐκ αν ἀλλαχόθι τοσούτουσ εὑρ́οισ ἄνδρασ ἀγαθούσ, δύο δὲ μάλιστά ἐστον ἡμῖν ἄνδρε ἀρίστω, γένει μὲν καὶ ἀξιώματι πολὺ προὔχοντοσ ἁπάντων, παιδείᾳ δὲ καὶ λόγων δυνάμει τῇ Ἀττικῇ δεκάδι παραβάλλοισ ἄν· (Lucian, Scytha 21:2)
  • ἐθέλω δέ σοι πρῶτον ὥσπερ ὁ Κέβησ ἐκεῖνοσ εἰκόνα γραψάμενοσ τῷ λόγῳ ἑκατέραν ἐπιδεῖξαι τὴν ὁδὸν δύο γάρ ἐστον, αἳ πρὸσ τὴν Ῥητορικὴν ἄγετον, ἧσ ἐρᾶν οὐ μετρίωσ μοι δοκεῖσ. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 6:2)
  • τριχορρυεῖτον, οὐδέν ἐστον τὼ λόφω. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode29)
  • πότερον ἀδελφὼ μητρόσ ἐστον ἐκ μιᾶσ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 2:6)
  • φίλω γάρ ἐστον. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 77:2)
  • παῖδε γάρ μοι ἐστὸν δύο καλώ, Ἵμεροσ καὶ Ἔρωσ, τούτω σοι παραδώσω ἡγεμόνε τῆσ ὁδοῦ γενησομένω· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 15:5)
  • καὶ ὡσ μᾶλλον θαυμάσῃσ, μιᾶσ καὶ τῆσ αὐτῆσ οἰκίασ ἐστόν, υἱὸσ καὶ πατήρ, ὁ μέν, εἴ τινα Σόλωνα ἢ Περικλέα ἢ Ἀριστείδην ἐπινοεῖσ, ὁ δὲ υἱὸσ καὶ ὀφθεὶσ μὲν αὐτίκα ἐπάξεταί σε, οὕτω μέγασ ἐστὶ καὶ καλὸσ ἀρρενωπήν τινα τὴν εὐμορφίαν· (Lucian, Scytha 23:1)
  • οὐκ ἐπ’ ἀγαθῷ γὰρ ἐνθάδ’ ἐστὸν οὐδενί. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:30)

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