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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

  • τοῦ δὲ ἀγῶνοσ τὸ ἆθλον εἴσῃ ἀναγνοὺσ τὸ μῆλον. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 7:10)
  • εἴσῃ γὰρ ὅσα ἐν τῷ ποιήματι τούτῳ μαντικῶσ ἅμα καὶ προφητικῶσ προτεθέσπισταί μοι τὰσ ἀποβάσεισ προδηλοῦντα τῶν τε ὀρθῶσ καὶ κατὰ καιρὸν πραττομένων καὶ τῶν παραλελειμμένων τὰσ ζημίασ. (Lucian, 10:2)
  • καὶ ταῦτα ὅτι μὴ ἄλλωσ κενὴ τίσ ἐστι κατ’ αὐτοῦ διαβολή, αὐτίκα εἴσῃ προσκαλέσασ τοὺσ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ πεφονευμένουσ· (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 26:8)
  • εἴσῃ γάρ, εἰ ὁρῶμαι μόνον ἢ καὶ τὸ κάειν τότε μοι πρόσεστιν. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, menelaus and proteus, chapter 2 1:3)
  • ἢν δέ σοι μελήσῃ ποτὲ εἰδέναι ὅπωσ ἂν τὰ κάλλιστα οἰκηθείη πόλισ καὶ ὅπωσ ἂν ἄριστοι γένοιντο οἱ πολῖται αὐτῆσ, ἐπαινέσῃ τότε καὶ τὰσ ἀσκήσεισ ταύτασ καὶ τὴν φιλοτιμίαν ἣν φιλοτιμούμεθα περὶ αὐτάσ, καὶ εἴσῃ ὅτι πολὺ τὸ χρήσιμον ἔχουσιν ἐγκαταμεμιγμένον τοῖσ πόνοισ, εἰ καὶ νῦν μάτην σπουδάζεσθαι δοκοῦσιν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 14:2)

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