Paradigm for the participle

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Banana tree
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Paradigm for the participle

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Hey guys.

I have this really thick grammar book but I can't find anything about the paradigm for the participle. It just says how it was used. I have looked at the scanned books here at Textkit but I still don't get it. Could someone please type a complete paradigm for presence, aorist and imperfect.

Like this:

Presence masculine:
Nominative/vocative: -ων -οντ-ες

Et cetera.

It would be highly appreciated. But maybe there's something here I don't get since the grammar book don't write it out I'm just guessing that you could deduce it from something else. Anyway thanks in advance.

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Re: Paradigm for the participle

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Hi! You can go to Berkeley's site and find all participles' paradigms in no. 54-66.
Smyth's Grammar also has complete paradigms with notes.

What book do you use?
Nate.

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Re: Paradigm for the participle

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Thanks a lot, bookmark on that site. My book is written in Swedish and Danish (don't ask me why they mix these languages) so I guess it's not so well-known. But for the record then: Grekisk/græsk grammatik by Blomqvist, Jerker.

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Re: Paradigm for the participle

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Nate wrote
Hi! You can go to Berkeley's site and find all participles' paradigms in no. 54-66.
Smyth's Grammar also has complete paradigms with notes.
Thanks, Nate. What a great site! I like the fact that you can click on the participle and it will give you the full paradigms.
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Re: Paradigm for the participle

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Dude,I know how you feel. My ancient Greek grammar book is in old old old Norwegian, it doesn't make things any easier. I feel very lucky we got an english text book! Reading everything in Danish/Swedish-mode is a bitch! Can't believe it is ignoring participles tho. I am gonna study it now,because they come up CONSTANTLY in Plato (Phaedon) so I better figure it out quick. I'll let you know if I find any easy patterns. All I know for now is that for participles ending in -wv (base-ovt) follow declination like 3rd.declination nouns in 3rd.class (bases ending in -v,-p (yes I mean R) and -ovt (masc. NOM-wn,ACC-a,GEN-os,DAT-i,plural:N-es,A-as,G-wn,D-si) (neutrum too,but change Nom/Acc obviously) while feminine follows 1st declination!

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