Hello everyone,
I am a beginner student of the κοινή Greek and I am dealing with contracted verbs now. A question, which might sound silly, is bothering me: are both forms, contracted and non-contracted, used equivalently or is the contracted form the only one actually used? E.g., can one say both ποιέω and ποιῶ or only ποιῶ?
Thanks.
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Re: verba contracta
In Koine only the contracted form is used, though most dictionaries will cite them uncontracted because the usual lemma form, the present first person singular, doesn't make it clear what the stem vowel is with the contraction.mjs wrote: or is the contracted form the only one actually used? E.g., can one say both ποιέω and ποιῶ or only ποιῶ?
If you eventually read Herodotus or Homer you'll find uncontracted -έω verbs, as well as some oddball behavior from -άω and -όω verbs.
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