Elementary New Testament Greek, 2014a

Exercises
I. Short Answer
1) What time (past, present or future) does the Greek Future Tense signify?
2) What aspect (internal/continuous, external/undened, or perfect) of does
the Greek Future Tense signify?
3) How would you express (in English) these notions of time and aspect (of
the Future Tense) with the verb “run” in the rst person singular, active
voice?
4) From which Principal Part is the Greek Future Tense (active and middle
voices) built?
5) From which Principal Part is the Greek Future Tense (passive voice) built?
6) With what set of personal endings is the Greek Future Tense built?
7) Does an augment appear with Greek verbs in the Future Tense?
8) How many different Principal Parts would a “regular” Greek verb have?
9) From what basic element are all Principal Parts individually formed (in
“regular” transitive verb)?
10) What are Suppletive verbs?
11) How is the 2nd Principal Part most commonly formed?
12) How is the 6th Principal Part most commonly formed?
13) Very generally, how are the six Principal Parts distributed across the
unied chart?
14) What are the three uses of the Future Tense? Explain each.
Solutions to Exercise I
1) future (Whew!)
2) external, viewed as a simple whole
3) I will run (notice: future time; external/simple aspect)
4) the 2nd Principal Part
5) the 6th Principal Part
6) primary personal endings
7) no [augments appear only in the past time tenses of the Indicative (Imperfect, Aorist, Pluperfect)]
8) six
9) the Verb Root
10) The joining together of several (two or more) Defective verbs (that are similar in meaning) to create
a single set of Principal Parts that now function as a single “verb.” As you look across the Principal
Parts of a Suppletive verb, you will realize that its Principal Parts are derived from (two or more)
different Roots.
11) by adding sigma () to the Verb Root
12) by adding theta-eta () to the Verb Root
13) All Principal Parts (except the 2nd) control vertical columns of the chart, with all verb forms in a
given column formed from the Principal Part positioned over it. The 2nd Principal Part interrupts
this pattern, forming the Future Active and Middle forms in the Indicative.
14) Predictive: [Projecting what will happen.]. Imperatival: [Requiring what must happen.].
Deliberative: [Considering what should happen.]
II. Drills with Present, Imperfect, and Future Verb Tenses
Increase your skill in recognizing, parsing and translating all three Tenses we have
learned [Present, Imperfect, Future]. Notice that the left-hand column contains Present
Tense verbs in a full sentence, while the center column and the right column offer
replacement verbs in the Imperfect and Future respectively. Go over this exercise
repeatedly until it begins to “ow” easily.
1) Working with the verb:
a) .
b) μ . μ μ
2) Working with the verb:
a) .
b) .
11: The Future Tense
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