<p>Firstly,asIstatedinmypreviouspost,IhaveslowlystartedgoingthroughthesecondUnitofHansenandQuinn's book and have, thus far, done nearly all the drills and will soon continue with the exercises; my goal of finishing this by the end of next week will, therefore, be quite easily attained. However, I was rather unprepared for the number of things one is required to learn in order to be able to form all possible forms of a Greek verb since, before you are even able to <em>begin</em> your attempt and conjugating a specific verb, you are required to learn the verb; but, unlike English and most other languages I have learnt so far, you are required to learn <em>six</em> principal parts for each verb. Frequently, they appear to be formed using some type of pattern, but often, each principal part cannot be derived from any other principal part. This is similar to how you must learn several parts of irregular English verbs — go, went, gone, going — in order to form all possible tenses and moods and such, but taken to the absolute extreme.
<p>Therealsoexiststheso-called<em>pastindicativeaugment</em><em>“ἐ-”</em>whichcanbeseenbeingattachedtotwooftheabove-describedprincipalparts.Itcanalsobeprefixedtothefirstprincipalpart's root, <em>παιδευ-</em>, to form <em>ἐπαιδευ-</em>. This, when the correct endings have been added onto it, is used to express the imperfect indicative. But speaking of endings …</p>
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<h2>Endings</h2>
<p>TherearequiteafewofthoseinAncientGreek.Indeed,unlikemostothermodernEuropeanlanguageswhereyougenerallyonlyhaveacoupleofendings—oftendependingontheverb's ending —, Ancient Greek has quite a large number of them. I have thus far only learnt a minuscule amount of them as I am only at Unit 2, but they will be introducing more of them over the upcoming units. </p>
<p>IputthevocabularyIdidnotunderstandfromLGPSIintoitsownvocabularysetonmyflashcardprogram,separatefromthatofH&Q's. This is mostly due to there being quite a few concepts within the first three chapters of LGPSI that I have yet to get taught by H&Q, such as third-declension nouns, personal pronouns and adjectives. </p>