Lesson 3 | Present Participles
Assignment (Part 1)
Find and parse the present (imperfective) participles.
- Look through Matthew 5:1–12 to find the present participles. You do not need to translate these verses, just find the present participles. Then color them green to show that they are in the present tense-form, and highlight them purple to show that they are participles.
- Next, copy or write each present participle from the phrasing module and paste it into the notes module. (Open the Notes tab by clicking the up arrow button.)
- Finally, parse the participle. Include its tense-form, voice, case, gender, number, and lexical form.
Example:
ὢν – present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular from εἰμί
θέλων – present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular from θέλω
A Little Extra Help
The very first word, Ἰδὼν, looks like it could be a present participle given its form. But this word does not use the present stem and therefore is not a present participle. Besides this, you should be able to correctly identify the present participles in the text. Just remember that vowel mergers may change the initial ο of the tense formers οντ and ομεν into another vowel or vowel combo.
Find and parse the present participles
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