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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

  • τὸ μέροσ γ’ ὦ φίλη, ὅπωσ ἂν ὦμεν εὐθὺσ ἀλλήλων φίλαι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 6:20)
  • ἐπαινῶ ταῦτα, καὶ ἤδη ὦμεν φίλοι καὶ ξένοι, ἐμοὶ μὲν σὺ ἐνταῦθα ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ, ἐγὼ δὲ σοὶ εἴ ποτε ἐσ τὴν Σκυθίαν ἀφίκοιο. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 62:5)
  • ἀργὸν εἶναι μήτε τὸ λυπούμενον ἐφ’ οἷσ κατορθοῦσιν, ἀλλ’ ἐπιλογίζεσθαι δι’ ἀμφοτέρων ὅπωσ τὰ μὲν φυλαττόμενοι βελτίονεσ ὦμεν αὐτῶν, τὰ δὲ μιμούμενοι μὴ χείρονεσ. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 11 6:1)
  • κἂν τέμαχοσ ἐκκλίνῃσ τι, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐστὶ σὸν ἑώσ ἂν ἔνδον ὦμεν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 27 1:6)
  • τοιγαροῦν ἵν’ ἐλεύθεροι ὦμεν δανεισάμενοι, κολακεύομεν οἰκότριβασ ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ δορυφοροῦμεν καὶ δειπνίζομεν καὶ δῶρα καὶ φόρουσ ὑποτελοῦμεν, οὐ διὰ τὴν πενίαν ̔ οὐδεὶσ γὰρ δανείζει πένητἰ, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὴν πολυτέλειαν. (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 6:6)

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