Translation Exercises

This week is the single most important week in the semester, because you will be learning about the aorist verb. This is the most commonly used form of the verb in Biblical Greek. Once you complete this week's work, you will be able to really start reading passages of Biblical Greek on your own. That's exciting!

Start early! You have to learn new stems for the verbs this week. That means for the verbs you have learned previously, you need to learn two new forms that those verbs can take. Those new forms are called "principal parts" of the verb. Just like in English, where you need to know "go" and "went" in order to use the verb correctly, you also have to know the different parts of the Greek verbs in order to use them correctly.

Practice Quizzes. There are separate practice quizzes for Lesson 12 Syntax (future tense) and for Lesson 13 Syntax (sigmatic aorist) and for Lesson 14 Syntax (non-sigmatic aorist) so that you can practice the lessons separately if you want, without any impact on the gradebook.

Extra credit. There is also an extra credit option where you can post some translations of the sentences at the Discussion Board. This option is available through Wednesday at midnight.

Before you begin Lesson 12, use these verb charts to review what you have learned about Greek verbs so far:

• Lesson 2: present active
• Lesson 9 : present middle/passive
• Lesson 10 : imperfect active
• Lesson 11 : imperfect middle/passive

So far you have been able to generate all of these verb forms using just one principal part: the present active indicative.

In Lesson 12, you will learn the second principal part, the future active. This also allows you to form the future middle.

In Lesson 13 and Lesson 14, you will learn the third principal part, the aorist active. This will also allow you to form the aorist middle.

Lesson 12. First, make sure you understand the new content in Croy by reading through Croy and then consulting the webpages here which provide supplemental information.

• Read Croy 12.75 and read these notes
• Read Croy 12.76 and read these notes
• Read Croy 12.77 and read these notes
• Read Croy 12.78 and read these notes
• Read Croy 12.79 and read these notes
• Read Croy 12.80 and read these notes

There is also a Chart of Principal Parts of the verbs you have learned so far to assist you with the future and aorist forms. (You can ignore the column labeled "Aorist Passive" since you have not learned that yet, and there is also a group of future and aorist forms that you will learn later in the semester - all the forms you need to know now are marked in yellow.) After you review these materials, you should be ready to do Practice Sentences, with help from the Commentary for Lesson 12 Practice Sentences. Because the sentences are becoming more complex, there is also a segmented version of the sentences to help you in your reading. You are not required to write out translations for all of the sentences, but you must be sure you understand the meaning of each sentence. If you have been having trouble with the Syntax Quizzes, I would strongly recommend that you translate all of the sentences.

Lesson 13 . First, make sure you understand the new content in Croy by reading through Croy and then consulting the webpages here which provide supplemental information.

• Read Croy 13.83 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.84 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.85 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.86 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.87 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.88 and read these notes

After you review these materials, you should be ready to do Practice Sentences, with help from the Commentary for Lesson 13 Practice Sentences. Because the sentences are becoming more complex, there is also a segmented version of the sentences to help you in your reading.

Lesson 14 . First, make sure you understand the new content in Croy by reading through Croy and then consulting the webpages here which provide supplemental information.

• Read Croy 13.91 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.92 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.93 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.94 and read these notes
• Read Croy 13.95 and read these notes

After you review these materials, you should be ready to do Practice Sentences, with help from the Commentary for Lesson 14 Practice Sentences. Because the sentences are becoming more complex, there is also a segmented version of the sentences to help you in your reading.