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πυνθάνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυνθάνομαι πεύσομαι ἐπυθόμην πέπυσμαι

Structure: πυνθάν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. I learn, I learn (accusative) from (genitive)
  2. (with accusative) I hear or learn
  3. (with genitive) I hear about, ask about
  4. (with participle) I learn that
  5. (with interrogative clause) I ask

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect 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

  • ἐν δὲ τῷ πυνθάνεσθαι τὸν βασιλέα περὶ τῆσ εὐνοίασ Μαρδοχαίου, ἰδοὺ Ἀμὰν ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ. εἶπε δὲ ὁ βασιλεύσ. τίσ ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ̣ ὁ δὲ Ἀμὰν εἰσῆλθεν εἰπεῖν τῷ βασιλεῖ κρεμάσαι τὸν Μαρδοχαῖον ἐπὶ τῷ ξύλῳ, ᾧ ἡτοίμασε. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 6:4)
  • ὥστε ἡδέωσ κἂν τῶν ἀντιδικούντων ἡμῖν τοῦ σεμνοτάτου πυθοίμην, εἰ ἄλλοθέν ποθεν ἔχοι ἂν ἐπιδεῖξαι αὑτὸν Ἀθηναῖον ἢ ἐκ τούτων, ὧν καὶ ἡμεῖσ Εὐφίλητον ἐπιδείκνυμεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 17 3:1)
  • συνίησ δὲ οἱάσ εἰκὸσ τοὺσ πλουσίουσ καὶ μέγα δυναμένουσ τὰσ πύστεισ πυνθάνεσθαι. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 32:3)
  • εἰ δὲ χρόνῳ παράκαιρον ἔργον ἢ λόγον πύθῃ, κατά με γᾶσ ζῶντα πόρευσον· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 18)
  • νῆα δ’ ἐπ’ ἠπείρου ἐρύσαι πυκάσαι τε λίθοισι πάντοθεν, ὄφρ’ ἴσχωσ’ ἀνέμων μένοσ ὑγρὸν ἀέντων, χείμαρον ἐξερύσασ, ἵνα μὴ πύθῃ Διὸσ ὄμβροσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 69:3)
  • καὶ ἤδη γε ἄπειμι παρὰ τὸν ἑταῖρον Κλεινίαν, ὅτι πυνθάνομαι χρόνου ἤδη ἀκάθαρτον εἶναι αὐτῷ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ ταύτην νοσεῖν, ὅτι μὴ ῥεῖ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 19:5)
  • πυνθάνομαι δὲ καὶ κτήματα εἶναί σοι μεγάλα παρ’ αὐτοῖσ, τὸ δύστηνον ἐκεῖνο πυργίον, ὡσ τὸν τοῦ Σινωπέωσ πίθον τὴν Διὸσ αὐλὴν εἶναι πρὸσ αὐτό. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 16:10)
  • εὔνουσ γὰρ ὤν σοι πυνθάνομαι πάνυ σφόδρα. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 1:12)
  • καὶ τὰ γράμματα πυνθάνομαι διαμένειν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 7 15:1)
  • πυνθάνομαι δ’ αὐτὸν ἐπιχειρήσειν ὑμᾶσ ἐξαπατᾶν λέγοντα, ὡσ ἔμποροσ ἐξέπλευσε καὶ κατὰ ταύτην τὴν ἐργασίαν ἀπεδήμησεν εἰσ Ῥόδον. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 74:2)

Synonyms

  1. I learn

  2. I hear or learn

  3. I hear about

  4. I learn that

  5. I ask

Related

Derived

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