Reading Greek augments

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Working on Section 5 A-B augment (Reading Greek)

Ἐκμανθάνω = present

ἐξἐμανθανον = imperfect (?)

Is the imperfect correct?

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The accent (which should look like a tiny straight line, έ not the curvy breathing at the beginning of the word ἐ), gets pushed further to the right, until it lands on the 3rd to last syllable. But otherwise, yes.

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Many thanks jed - The downloaded Greek Polytonic keyboard hasn’t got any accents, and those on Lexilogos look all the same to me (new glasses needed?).I wish I knew how you and others cope with accents.

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Which Operating System you using? The Greek polytonic Keyboard I get just by downloading the Microsoft Greek Language Pack for Windows 11 works fine for me (it’s a combination of using the / ; ’ # - = keys with either shift or alt gr, plus other combinations to get the accents and diacritics you want):

ά ἀ ᾆ ἆ ἃ ἁ ἄ ἅ ᾳ ᾷ ὰ ἂ

I wish I knew how you and others cope with accents.

Magic.

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Thanks S. Walch - I’m still on Windows 10 and the MS Greek language pack recommended is the one I’ve got. I suspect I haven’t yet managed to work out the correct combination of keys to get the various accents. Back to the drawing board. :wink:

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You can use Ctrl-Plus Sign (on the numeric keyboard) to increase the size of the font on Lexilogos.