On Thursday I wasted 4 hours of my life on a 'Klausur Griechisch 12', as did my classmates.
I so hate translating Lukian, so of course it was a Lukian text we had to translate .
Anyway, this was not a test my teacher had set, but some external board and their commentary was very strange,
e.g. αὔριον = morning
or
μὴ ἐλάσῃς = negated imperative of ἐλαύνω
so they were commenting on easy things like this but they didn’t help at all on the form
καθεδοῦνται
which subsequently everyone in my class could not find in the dictionary and everyone got wrong . Later when we complained to our teacher he said it was from καθιζομαι .
But how can that be?
I looked up καθιζω in my dictionary and couldn’t find the form καθεδοῦνται .
So does it come from καθιζω and if so ...uh... how?
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All these "seat/sit" words are messy and easily confused with one another.
ἑδοῦμαι is the future of [u]ἕ[/u]ζομαι.
ἑδοῦμαι is the future of [u]ἕ[/u]ζομαι.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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Yes, it's very useful to know the principle parts. This word wasn't on my list though .I must admit, it's nice to have them in your toolbox when you come upon a strange word!
Thing is that because of this one word we've all messed up the exam. It's one of those 'competitions' for a stipend and you only really have a chance if you have zero mistakes.