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οἶδα

Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἶδα εἴσομαι οἶδα

Structure:

Sense

  1. (transitive) to know, be acquainted with [+accusative = something]
  2. (intransitive) to know how to [+infinitive = do something]
  3. (transitive, when main verb and participle have separate subjects) to know that [+accusative noun and accusative participle = someone else does something]

Conjugation

Future tense

Perfect tense

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 μετὰ σοῦ ἡ σοφία ἡ εἰδυῖα τὰ ἔργα σου καὶ παροῦσα, ὅτε ἐποίεισ τὸν κόσμον, καὶ ἐπισταμένη τί ἀρεστὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ σου καὶ τί εὐθὲσ ἐν ἐντολαῖσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 9:9)
  • καὶ ἐῴκει ἡ Ἀδράστεια τότε κατόπιν ἐφεστῶσά σοι εὐδοκιμοῦντι ἐφ̓ οἷσ κατηγόρεισ τῶν ἄλλων, καταγελᾶν ὡσ ἂν θεὸσ εἰδυῖα τὴν μέλλουσάν σοι ἐσ τὰ ὅμοια μεταβολὴν καὶ ὅτι οὐκ εἰσ τὸν κόλπον πτύσασ πρότερον ἠξίουσ κατηγορεῖν τῶν διὰ ποικίλασ τινὰσ τύχασ τοιαῦτα πράττειν ὑπομενόντων. (Lucian, Apologia 16:2)
  • Τροίασ δ’ ἀπηύδων ἄστυ μὴ κέλσαι ποτε, εἰδυῖα τὸν σὸν πότμον· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 2:5)
  • εἶδον γὰρ αὐτὴν ἔναγχοσ ἐν τοῖσ Θεσμοφορίοισ μετὰ τῆσ μητρόσ, οὐδέπω εἰδυῖα ὅτι δἰ αὐτὴν οὐκέτι ὄψομαι Πάμφιλον. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:6)
  • κἀγὼ σκυθρωποὺσ ὀμμάτων ἕξω κόρασ, ὡσ δῆθεν οὐκ εἰδυῖα τἀξειργασμένα. (Euripides, episode, iambic8)

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