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Make sure you study the forms of the verb "to be" in the past tense in Croy Lesson 10 section 67. Unlike the present tense forms of "to be," these past tense forms are not enclitics. They function as real words, with accent marks of their own. They are pretty easy to recognize, since they all begin with the letter eta, and except for the first person singular, the eta has a circumflex accent mark (the first person singular form has an acute instead of a circumflex because the final syllable is long - and you can only have a circumflex accent on the penultimate syllable when the ultimate syllable is short).
ἤμην: I was
ἦς: you were
ἦν: she was, he was, it was
ἦμεν: we were
ἦτε: you were
ἦσαν: they were
Here are some sentences for you to practice with, using the question word ποῦ, meaning where?
Were you in the small boat? I was not in the small boat. Where were you? I was in my house. |
ἦς ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ τῷ μικρῷ; ποῦ ἦς; |
Were you in the desert? We were not in the desert. Where were you? We were in the temple with the disciples. |
ἦτε ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ; ποῦ ἦτε; |
Was the prophet in the temple? He was not in the temple. Where was he? He was in the desert. Were the faithful brothers with him? They were not with him; they stayed in their houses. |
ἦν ὁ προφήτης ἐν τῷ
ἱερῷ; ποῦ ἦν; ἦσαν οἱ ἀδελφοὶ οἱ πιστοὶ μετ' αὐτοῦ; |
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