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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 τί ποιοῦντα εἴσονταί με οἱ Ἕλληνεσ ἅπαντεσ; (Lucian, Harmonides 1:2)
  • ἀποκρίνεται οὖν αὐτῷ ὁ Τιμόθεοσ, Ἀλλ̓, ὦ Ἁρμονίδη, ἐρᾷσ μέν, ἔφη, εὖ ἴσθι, οὐ μικροῦ πράγματοσ, ἐπαίνου καὶ δόξησ καὶ ἐπίσημοσ εἶναι καὶ γιγνώσκεσθαι πρὸσ τῶν πολλῶν, τοῦτο δὲ εἰ μὲν οὑτωσί πωσ ἐσ τὰ πλήθη παριὼν ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ ἐθέλοισ πορίζεσθαι, μακρὸν ἂν γένοιτο, καὶ οὐδὲ οὕτωσ ἅπαντεσ εἴσονταί σε. (Lucian, Harmonides 4:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ οὓσ ἅπαντεσ ἴσασι καὶ οὓσ θαυμάζουσιν, οὗτοι δὲ εἴσονταί σε αὐλητὴν εὐδόκιμον ὄντα, τί σοι δεῖ τῶν πολλῶν, οἵ γε πάντωσ ἀκολουθήσουσι τοῖσ ἄμεινον κρῖναι δυναμένοισ; (Lucian, Harmonides 5:6)
  • λόγων δὲ ἆρα τινὲσ ἀκριβῶσ ἐξ ὀλίγων παραγγελμάτων καὶ προσκαίρου κατηχήσεωσ ἐμμελοῦσ ἁρμονίασ εἴσονται φύσιν; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 50 2:3)
  • ὅτι νὴ Δί’ εἴσονται πάντεσ πότερόσ ποτ’ ὦφλεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 19:1)

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