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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

  • καί, Ἄγε δή, ἔφην, ὦ Περίλαε, εἰ μὴ κενὴ ἄλλωσ ὑπόσχεσισ ταῦτά ἐστι, δεῖξον ἡμῖν αὐτὸσ εἰσελθὼν τὴν ἀλήθειαν τῆσ τέχνησ καὶ μίμησαι τοὺσ βοῶντασ, ἵν’ εἰδῶμεν εἰ καὶ ἃ φὴσ μέλη διὰ τῶν αὐλῶν φθέγγεται. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 12:1)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ ταῦτα λέγοισ ἄν, ὦ Μένιππε, ἵνα μηδὲ καθ’ ἓν ἀπολειπώμεθα τῆσ ἀποδημίασ, ἀλλ’ εἲ τί σοι καὶ ὁδοῦ πάρεργον ἱστόρηται, καὶ τοῦτο εἰδῶμεν ὡσ ἔγωγε οὐκ ὀλίγα προσδοκῶ ἀκούσεσθαι σχήματόσ τε πέρι γῆσ καὶ τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ ἁπάντων, οἱᾶ́ σοι ἄνωθεν ἐπισκοποῦντι κατεφαίνετο. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 11:8)
  • ἡσυχίαν τοίνυν ἄγειν βέλτιστόν ἐσθ’, ἑώσ ἂν εἰδῶμεν σαφῶσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, lyric7)
  • οὐ γὰρ δὴ εἴ τισ παραστησάμενοσ καλὸν ἄνθρωπον λέγοι τοῦτον εἶναι κάλλιστον ἀνθρώπων ἁπάντων, πιστεύσαιμεν ἂν αὐτῷ, ἢν μὴ εἰδῶμεν ὅτι πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ ἑώρακεν· (Lucian, 94:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οὔ τι μή σοί μ’ ἐκλιπεῖν ἐφήσομαι οὐδ’ ἐξυπελθεῖν τοῦ πόνου πρίν γ’ ἂν σαφῶσ εἰδῶμεν ὅντιν’ ἔνδον ἥδ’ ἔχει στέγη. (Sophocles, Ichneutae 16:10)

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