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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

  • οὕτω ποιήσεισ πάσασ τὰσ πόλεισ τὰσ μακρὰν οὔσασ σου σφόδρα, αἱ οὐχὶ ἐκ τῶν πόλεων τῶν ἐθνῶν τούτων, ὧν Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου δίδωσί σοι κληρονομεῖν τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 20:15)
  • καὶ πάσασ τὰσ πόλεισ τὰσ οὔσασ ἐν τῇ Μισὼρ καὶ Δαιβὼν καὶ Βαμωθβάαλ καὶ οἴκου Βεελμὼν (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 13:17)
  • καὶ σβέσαι τὰσ τῶν οἴστρων φλεγμονὰσ καὶ τὰσ τῶν σωμάτων ἀλγηδόνασ καθ’ ὑπερβολὴν οὔσασ καταπαλαῖσαι καὶ τῇ καλοκαγαθίᾳ τοῦ λογισμοῦ ἀποπτύσαι πάσασ τὰσ τῶν παθῶν ἐπικρατείασ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 3:18)
  • Ἡρόδοτοσ τοῦτ̓ ἐκεῖνο ἥκειν οἱ νομίσασ τὸν καιρόν, οὗ μάλιστα ἐγλίχετο, πλήθουσαν τηρήσασ τὴν πανήγυριν, ἁπανταχόθεν ἤδη τῶν ἀρίστων συνειλεγμένων, παρελθὼν ἐσ τὸν ὀπισθόδομον οὐ θεατήν, ἀλλ̓ ἀγωνιστὴν παρεῖχεν ἑαυτὸν Ὀλυμπίων ᾅδων τὰσ ἱστορίασ καὶ κηλῶν τοὺσ παρόντασ, ἄχρι τοῦ καὶ Μούσασ κληθῆναι τὰσ βίβλουσ αὐτοῦ, ἐννέα καὶ αὐτὰσ οὔσασ. (Lucian, Herodotus 3:1)
  • ἐν γὰρ δὴ τοῖσ λόγοισ τούτοισ μακροτέρασ τὰσ διηγήσεισ οὔσασ οὐχ ἅμα τίθησιν ὅλασ, ἀλλὰ κατὰ μέρη διαλαμβάνων ἐφ’ ἑκάστῳ κεφαλαίῳ τούσ τε μάρτυρασ ἐπάγεται καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ παρέχεται πίστεισ, δεδοικώσ, παρ’ ὅσα γοῦν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, μὴ δυσπαρακολούθητοσ γένηται διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν κεφαλαίων ὁ λόγοσ καὶ πελαγίσῃ, αἵ τε πίστεισ εἰσ ἓν χωρίον ἅπασαι συναχθεῖσαι, πολλαὶ καὶ περὶ πολλῶν οὖσαι πραγμάτων, μὴ συνταράξωσι τὴν σαφήνειαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 14 1:2)

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