Annotation
This course and its follow-up subjects focus on the study of Greek common language (koine), the language of the
New Testament. The teaching includes grammatical explications of a part of the morphology and syntax of common Greek and their practicing on adequately difficult training sentences, selected mainly from the text of the
New Testament. After completing the course, the student is able to read and write Greek text, analyze and translate simple Greek sentences, some types of compound and complex sentences and shorter texts and can work properly with dictionaries.
The outline:
Origin and process of Greek / Greek alphabet and script / Basic grammatical terms / Phonetics and pronunciation /
Article / Nouns of the 2nd declension / Introduction to the Greek verb system (present system) / Uncontracted vowel verbs and consonant verbs / Nouns of the 1st declension / Deponential verbs / The verb einai / Adjectives of the 1st and 2nd declension / Possessive pronouns / Adverbs / Personal pronouns / Relative pronouns / Imperfect /
Reflexive and reciprocal pronoun / Futurum active and medium / Nouns of the 3rd declension (part) / Present subjunctive / Optative / Final clauses / Present participle / Absolute genitive / Optative and conclusion infinitive and its relations / Grading of adjectives of the 1st and 2nd declension and their adverbs / Dative and genitive with the verb einai / Adjectives of the 3rd declension (part) / Contracted verbs / Contracted nouns and adjectives.