This morning, while studying Plato’s Symposium, I couldn’t remember verb forms, especially imperatives, middle-passive contract verbs, but others as well.
Does this happen to other autodidacts?
Does this happen to other autodidacts?
Yes, Hugh, frequently, because of the bewildering variety of the forms. My other problem is dealing with the low-frequency vocabulary that makes up a large proportion of a text. The topic has been raised elsewhere on this forum but I have not seen much of a response.
Michael
In Greek, the handiest aids I’ve seen are New Testament lexicons, which index every inflection and the IOS Attikos app for Attic Greek. If you have an iphone, Attikos is free of charge. Attikos runs fine on my aging iphone SE (2016).
https://attikos.org/
Close behind Attikos is Alpheios. https://alpheios.net/pages/tools/
I always use the Loeb Classical LIbrary books for Greek. When baffled by a Greek sentence, I work word-by-word comparing the LCL English with the Greek text until understand which Greek words or phrases match up with words or phrases in the English. Then, I try the lexicon again. This often turns up an unusual definition buried in a long article on a more common word.
Hi Hugh,
If you haven’t already seen them, check out the Nifty Greek Handouts published by Helma Dik (the force behind Logeion and Attikos) – particularly the first one, an overview of λύω in all tenses for quick reference ‘when panic strikes or efficiency beckons’. 
HTH!
https://classics.uchicago.edu/people/helma-dik/nifty-greek-handouts
Yes, frequently. Liberation Philology Ancient Greek www.libphil.ca works well on my Android phone. It’s free to download.
It also works well in my aging iphone SE (2016).