Elementary New Testament Greek, 2014a

11: The Future Tense
The Future Passive and The 6th Principal Part
From the unied chart it is clear that the Future Passive is formed from the sixth Principal Part, to which are joined the same endings as are found in the Middle. Look again at the
whole Paradigm below:
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Future Active Indicative Future Middle Indicative Future Passive Indicative
“I will destroy” μ “I myself will destroy” μ “I will be destroyed”
ßß “you will destroy” ßß “you yourself will destroy” “you will be destroyed”
“he/she/it will destroy”
“he/she/it himself will
destroy”
“he/she/it will be
destroyed”
μ “we will destroy” μ “we ourselves will destroy” μ “we will be destroyed”
“y’all will destroy”
“y’all yourselves will
destroy”
“y’all will be destroyed”
“they will destroy”
“they themselves will
destroy”
“they will be destroyed”
The obvious job that remains is grasping the formation of the sixth Principal Part. Only two Assembly Lines exist:
Input Sixth Principal Part Factory Product
Assembly Line
Machinery
Verb Root
Engineer?
A
B
add () [usually]
add () [rarely]
Sixth Principal Part