Lesson 10 | Adjectives and Adverbs
Review
In this lesson, we learned the following about adjectives and adverbs.
- An adjective is a word that describes nouns, pronouns, and other adjectives
- Greek adjectives function in three ways:
- Attributive adjectives attribute or assign qualities to the words they describe
- Predicate adjectives predicate or state something about the words they describe
- Substantival adjectives substitute or stand in for nouns
- A few basic rules can help us determine how an adjective is functioning:
- Always Attributive: The adjective is with the article
- Always Predicate: The adjective is without the article but the noun is with it
- Always Substantival: The adjective is with the article and there is no other word the adjective could describe
- Attributive or Predicate: There is no article. Context decides.
- When the demonstrative pronouns (οὗτος and έκεῖνος) and the interrogative pronoun (τις) function as adjectives, they take the predicate position but function attributively
- αὐτός can function in three ways:
- The Third Person Pronoun
- Predicate Position: When αὐτός is in the predicate position, it functions as an emphasizing pronoun (translated with a -self pronoun).
- Attributive Position: When αὐτός is in the attributive position, it functions as an identical adjective (translated as “the same”).
- An adverb is a word that describes a verb
- Greek adverbs do not change their form
Greek I Cheat SheetpdfIncludes noun patterns, the article, first- and second-person pronouns, and participle key features