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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

  • καὶ οὐκ ἐπιγνωσθήσεται ἡ εὐθηνία ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ ἀπὸ τοῦ λιμοῦ τοῦ ἐσομένου μετὰ ταῦτα. ἰσχυρὸσ γὰρ ἔσται σφόδρα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 41:31)
  • ὡσ οὖν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐσχάτων ἐσομένου τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ, οὕτω προσήκει γιγνώσκειν, καὶ τοὺσ πεπρακότασ αὑτοὺσ ἐκείνῳ φανερῶσ ἀποτυμπανίσαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 72:1)
  • καὶ οἱ μήτε ἐν ἀνδρείασ πάθει ὄντεσ, οἱο͂ν ἐν ὀργῇ ἢ θάρρει ἀλόγιστα γὰρ τοῦ ἐσομένου ταῦτα, μήτε ἐν ὑβριστικῇ διαθέσει καὶ γὰρ οὗτοι ἀλόγιστοι τοῦ πείσεσθαί τι, ἀλλ’ οἱ μεταξὺ τούτων, μήτ’ αὖ φοβούμενοι σφόδρα· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 8 6:1)
  • καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἐσομένου ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν δῆλον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 19 23:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ βουλεύεται περὶ τοῦ γεγονότοσ ἀλλὰ περὶ τοῦ ἐσομένου καὶ ἐνδεχομένου, τὸ δὲ γεγονὸσ οὐκ ἐνδέχεται μὴ γενέσθαι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 18:2)

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