Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Translate basic Greek vocabulary

• Translate verbs appropriately in context, accurately reflecting their tense, voice, and mood

• Translate nouns, adjectives, and participles appropriately in context, accurately reflecting their gender, number, and case

• Recognize and translate definite, indefinite, demonstrative, interrogative, and reflexive pronouns

• Recognize and translate prepositions appropriately in context

• Understand how word order influences emphasis

• Use Greek lexical and grammatical tools for in-depth study of the Greek New Testament

Contents:

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Alphabet and Pronunciation

• Pronunciation

• English Square of Stops

• Greek Square of Stops

• Sibilants

• Nasals and Liquids

• Vowels, Semivowels, and Digraphs

• The Alphabet

• Punctuation and Accent Marks

• Breathing Marks and IōtaSubscript

• Elision and Syllabification

• Practice

Unit 2: Present Active and Contract Verbs

• Present Active Indicatives

• Vocabulary 1

• Exercises: Present Active Indicatives

• Contract Verbs Ending in Vowels and Verb Accentuation

• Vocabulary 2

• Exercises: Contract Verbs

Unit 3: Second Declension Nouns, Prepositions, and the Article

• Second Declension Nouns

• Vocabulary 3

• Exercises: Nominatives and Accusatives

• Genitives and Datives: Part 1

• Genitives and Datives: Part 2

• Exercises: Genitives and Datives

• Prepositions: Part 1

• Prepositions: Part 2

• Definite Article: Use and Meaning

• Definite Article: Morphology

• Exercises: Masculine Articles

• Second Declension Neuter Nouns

• Vocabulary 4

• Exercises: Second Declension Masculine and Neuter Nouns

Unit 4: First and Second Declension Nouns and Adjectives

• First Declension Feminine Nouns

• Vocabulary 5

• Exercises: First and Second Declension Nouns

• First Declension Masculine Nouns

• First Declension Exceptions

• Vocabulary 6

• Exercises: First Declension Masculine and Feminine Nouns

• Adjectives

• Vocabulary 7

Unit 5: Present and Imperfect Tenses of “To Be,” Imperfects, Second Declension Adjectives, Demonstrative Pronouns, and Uses of ἀυτός

• Present Tense of “To Be”

• Exercises: Adjectives

• Imperfects: Uses

• Imperfects: Morphology

• Vocabulary 8

• Exercises: Imperfects

• Imperfect of “To Be”

• Demonstrative Pronouns

• Uses of ἀυτός

• Exercises: Pronouns

Unit 6: Passives, Deponents, Verbal Voice, Imperatives, and Relative Pronouns

• Passives: Morphology

• Passives: Meaning and Syntax

• Vocabulary 9

• Exercises: Verbal Voice

• Deponents

• Imperatives

• Relative Pronouns

• Vocabulary 10

• Exercises: Relative Pronouns and Translating

Unit 7: Infinitives, Personal and Reflexive Pronouns, Middle Voice, Verb Tense, Future Tense, Changes in Verbal Roots, and Questions

• Infinitives: Syntax

• Infinitives: Uses

• Personal Pronouns

• Vocabulary 11

• Exercises: Infinitives

• Middle Voice

• Future Tense

• Vocabulary 12

• Exercises: Future Tense

• Changes to Verbal Roots

• Vocabulary 13

• Reflexive Pronouns

• Kinds of Questions

• Exercises: Kinds of Questions

• Verb Tense

Unit 8: Aorists, Object Clauses after Verbs of Saying or Thinking, Liquid Verbs, Temporal Clauses, and the Preposition παρά

• First Aorist: Sigmatic Forms

• Imperatives: Aorist vs. Present

• Aorist vis-à-vis Present Infinitives

• Exercises: Aorist Forms

• Second Aorists: Thematic Forms

• Athematic Aorists

• Aorists and Unrelated Roots

• Object Clauses after Verbs of Saying or Thinking

• Vocabulary 14

• Exercises: Asigmatic Aorists

• Liquid Verbs

• Temporal Clauses and the Preposition παρά

• Vocabulary 15

Unit 9: Third Declension Nouns, Aorists, Third Declension Irregular Adjectives, and Passives

• Regular Third Declension Nouns

• Irregular Third Declension Nouns

• Vocabulary 16

• Exercises: Third Declension Nouns

• Semivowel Stem Third Declension Nouns

• Neuter Third Declension Nouns

• Vocabulary 17

• Exercises: Translating Aorists

• Third Declension and Irregular Adjectives

• Vocabulary 18

• Exercises: Translating Sentences

• Passives for the Aorist and Future

Unit 10: Participles, Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns, Aorist Middles, Comparative Adjectives, and Contract Verbs

• Participles: Morphology: Part 1

• Participles: Morphology: Part 2

• Participles: Meaning and Use

• Vocabulary 19

• Exercises: Translating Participles

• Participles as Genitive Absolutes

• Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns

• Vocabulary 20

• Exercises: Translating Genitive Absolutes

• Aorist Middles

• Comparative Adjectives

• Vocabulary 21

• Exercises: Comparative Adjectives

• Contract Verbs: Α-Type andΟ-Type

• Vocabulary 22

• Exercises: Translating Contract Verbs

Unit 11: Principal Parts, Perfects and Pluperfects, Subjunctives, Infinitives, and μι Verbs

• Verbs: Six Principal Parts

• Perfect and Pluperfect Tenses

• Vocabulary 23–24

• Subjunctives: Morphology

• Subjunctives: Morphology and Syntax

• Vocabulary 25

• Exercises: Translating Subjunctives

• Infinitives: Other Uses

• Exercises: Infinitive Uses

• The -μι Verbs

• Exercises: δίδωμι

Conclusion

• Conclusion to the Course

• Video hours: 14