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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

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ εἴ τισ γεύσαιτο ἀρυσάμενοσ ὀλίγον ὅσον αὐτοῦ, εἴσεσθαι αὐτίκα ὁποῖοσ ἅπασ ὁ πίθοσ ἐστίν, ἀκόλουθον καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ οὐδὲν ἂν ἔγωγέ τι ἀντεῖ πον. (Lucian, 120:9)
  • Δεήσει τοίνυν σέ, εἰ μέλλεισ Στωϊκῶν τὸν ἄριστον εἴσεσθαι, εἰ καὶ μὴ ἐπὶ πάντασ, ἀλλ̓ οὖν ἐπὶ τοὺσ πλείστουσ αὐτῶν ἐλθεῖν καὶ πειραθῆναι καὶ τὸν ἀμείνω προστήσασθαι διδάσκαλον, γυμνασάμενόν γε πρότερον καὶ κριτικὴν τῶν τοιούτων δύναμιν πορισάμενον, ὡσ μή σε λάθῃ ὁ χείρων προκριθείσ. (Lucian, 139:6)
  • "τὸ δ’ ἔσχατον πάντων, ὅτι ἐάν τισ ἡμῖν καὶ σχολὴ γένηται ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ τραπώμεθα πρὸσ τὸ σκοπεῖν τι, ἐν ταῖσ ζητήσεσι πανταχοῦ παραπῖπτον θόρυβον παρέχει καὶ ταραχὴν καὶ ἐκπλήττει, ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ καθορᾶν τἀληθέσ, ἀλλὰ τῷ ὄντι ἡμῖν δέδεικται ὅτι εἰ μέλλομέν ποτε καθαρῶσ τι εἴσεσθαι, ἀπαλλακτέον αὐτοῦ καὶ αὐτῇ τῇ ψυχῇ θεατέον αὐτὰ τὰ πράγματα· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 13 2:6)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, τίσ ἂν ἐνείματο τὰ πατρῷα μὴ λαβὼν γράμματα, ἐξ ὧν ἔμελλεν εἴσεσθαι τὴν καταλειφθεῖσαν οὐσίαν; (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 29:2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐγώ γε πιστωθεὶσ κατένευσα καὶ ὤμοσα καρτερὸν ὁρ́κον, μή τινα νόσφιν ἐμεῖο θεῶν αἰειγενετάων ἄλλον γ’ εἴσεσθαι Ζηνὸσ πυκινόφρονα βουλήν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 55:9)

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