Lesson 1 | The Greek Verbal System
Review
This lesson introduced you to Greek verbs. You learned that:
1. Koine Greek verbs have six parts
- Stem: The verb’s lexical core that communicates its meaning (λύω)
- Tense-form: How the speaker portrays the verb’s action. Remember, Greek verbs communicate time only in the indicative mood.
- Voice: The subject’s relationship to the verb’s action (active, middle, or passive)
- Mood: How the speaker portrays the verb’s relationship to reality
- Person: The speaker’s relation to the verb’s subject (first, second, or third)
- Number: The number of the verb’s subject (singular or plural)
2. The Koine Greek verbal system has three aspects
- Imperfective: Describes part of the action as it is happening.
- Perfective: Describes the whole action (from beginning to end), that it happened.
- Stative: Focuses on the results of the action, that it has happened.
