Does anyone have suggestions for a concise source book of Greek verb forms, suitable for use in the early stages of self-learning?
The kind of thing I have in mind carries titles such as 500+ [language] Verbs Fully Conjugated, and is usually quite inexpensive. I’ve tracked down some titles on Amazon and elsewhere but it’s difficult to judge their usefulness from the short description given. One book looks like it might be practical is in French: Le verbe grec ancien - Eléments de morphologie et de syntaxe historiques by Yves Dehoux and published in 2000 (at 54 Euros - duh!).
Thanks in advance. All help is greatly appreciated (especially when one is located in the remoteness of the Canadian prairies!).
Michael
From the description of the Dehoux book, it looks more like a series of studies than an accidence. But I don’t know.
Wiktionary is a good resource for fully conjugated verbs.
What tends to be the most useful after you’ve learned the conjugation of the model verbs – vowel, contract, -μι, and consonant-stems – are tables of principal parts and verb synopsis tables. The back of Smyth has a comprehensive table of principal parts of irregular verbs, and synopsis tables for the main types in the verb section. Mastronarde has a general table of the principal parts of common verbs.
It’s well worth it to spend some time becoming thoroughly familiar with the model verbs (and some of the irregulars) in all of their forms. That and memorizing principal parts.
Is this the kind of thing you’re looking for:http://www.amazon.com/All-Greek-Verbs-Language/dp/0715617729/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445200442&sr=8-1&keywords=all+the+greek+verbs
That’s a useful book, but it’s not arranged by verbs, but alphabetically by verb form. So if you run into a strange verb form in reading, you can look it up with that book.
Thanks all for the help and suggestions. The Marinone book looks useful and has some glowing reviews. Published in Italian doesn’t appear to be an obstacle.
I guess the real answer is to learn thoroughly the verb forms as one comes to them in the course book.
Michael