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Please read Croy section 110, but do not let it confuse you. The only thing you really need to understand from this discussion is that some aorist passives end in eta, but do not have the preceding theta. That is simply a matter of memorization. When you learn the sixth principal part of the verbs, every once in a while there will be a verb that does not have a theta in the aorist passive. (There are four examples of verbs that you know so far, and you will see them at the bottom of the Aorist Passive Principal Parts chart for section 108). A good example is the verb γράφω as shown below:
Aorist Past Active |
Aorist Active Endings |
Aorist Passive Endings |
Aorist Past Passive |
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| I wrote | ἔγραψα | α |
ην | ἐγράφην | I was written |
| you wrote | ἔγραψας | ας |
ης | ἐγράφης | you were written |
| she/he/it wrote | ἔγραψε | ε |
η | ἐγράφη | she/he/it was written |
| we wrote | ἐγράψαμεν | αμεν |
ημεν | ἐγράφημεν | we were written |
| you wrote | ἐγράψατε | ατε |
ητε | ἐγράφητε | you were written |
| they wrote | ἔγραψαν | αν |
ησαν | ἐγράφησαν | they were written |
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