Lesson 5 | Future Indicatives

Review

In this lesson, we added three rows to our 4 Key Features chart, and finished filling out our εἰμί paradigm. Here they are again for your review.
Indicative Verbs: 4 KEY FEATURES
Tense-Form Voice Augment Stem Tense Former Ending Pattern
Present Active present Primary
Active
Middle/
Passive
present Primary
Middle-Passive
Imperfect Active ε present Secondary
Active
Middle/
Passive
ε present Secondary
Middle-Passive
1st Aorist Active ε
usually same as
present
σα Secondary
Active
Middle ε
usually same as
present
σα Secondary
Middle-Passive
Passive ε
usually same as
present
θη Secondary
Active
2nd Aorist Active ε aorist Secondary
Active
Middle ε aorist Secondary
Middle-Passive
Passive ε aorist η Secondary
Active
Future Active future¹ σ Primary
Active
Middle future¹ σ Primary
Middle-Passive
Passive aorist θησ Primary
Middle-Passive
¹ Often similar to the aorist stem.

εἰμί in the indicative
Present Imperfect Future
Singular First εἰμί
I am
ἤμην
I was
ἔσομαι
I will be
Second εἶ
you are
ἦς
you were
ἔσῃ
you will be
Third ἐστίν
he/she/it is
ἦν
he/she/it was
ἔσται
he/she/it will be
Plural First ἐσμέν
we are
ἦμεν
we were
ἐσόμεθα
we will be
Second ἐστέ
you (pl.) are
ἦτε
you (pl.) were
ἔσεσθε
you (pl.) will be
Third εἰσίν
they are
ἦσαν
they were
ἔσονται
they will be

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