Below you will find the syllabus for the First Year of the Greek Course, subdivided according to the chapters of the textbook. To facilitate consultation, we have chosen to list the grammatical rules presented in each chapter. This will also allow those who are not yet familiar with the inductive-contextual method to compare the topics addressed in our course with any other Greek grammar book. However, it is very important to bear in mind that our courses never call for the study of grammatical rules by the sole means of the memorization of declensions and conjugations; rather, each rule is learned through direct use, and is fully grasped within the context in which it appears.
First Year Greek Syllabus
During their First Year, in addition to the principal grammatical rules, our students will learn approximately 1400 of the most common words in the Greek language.
Chapter I Lexicon 69 new words Grammar - The verb “to be”: third-person singular of the present indicative - Verbs ending in -ω: third-person singular of the present indicative - Verbs contracted in -εω: third-person singular of the present indicative - Articles: masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular; masculine accusative singular - Second declension: nominative and accusative singular of masculine nouns - Adjective-noun agreement: general rules - The ephelcystic -ν - The principal conjunctions
Chapter II Lexicon 65 new words Grammar - The verb “to be”: I, II, III person singular of the present indicative and II person singular of the present imperative - Verbs ending in -ω: I, II, III person singular of the present indicative and II person singular of the present imperative - Verbs contracted in -εω: I, II, III person singular of the present indicative and II person singular of the present imperative - The negative imperative - Accents: general rules and the final trochee - The value of cases: general rules - Second declension: all cases of masculine and neuter singular nouns - Complements of place: motion toward in εἰς + accusative, motion from in ἐκ + genitive, location in ἐν + dative and ὑπό + dative
Chapter III Lexicon
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75 new words Grammar - The verb “to be”: III person plural of the present indicative, II person plural of the present imperative, and present infinitive - Verbs ending in -ω: III person plural of the present indicative, II person plural of the present imperative, and present infinitive - Verbs contracted in -εω: III person plural of the present indicative, II person plural of the present imperative, and present infinitive - Second declension: all cases of the singular and plural - First-class adjectives: singular and plural of masculine and neuter adjectives - Complements of place: motion from in ἀπό + genitivo, motion toward in ἐπί + accusative, location in ἐπί + dative and μετά + accusative - Direct interrogative clauses introduced by ἆρα - Temporal and causal conjunctions: ἐπεί and ὅτι
Chapter IV Lexicon 132 new words Grammar - The verb “to be”: I, II, III person singular and plural of the present indicative - Verbs ending in -ω: I, II, III person singular and plural of the present indicative - Verbs contracted in -εω: I, II, III person singular and plural of the present indicative - First declension: all singular and plural cases of feminine nouns ending in α pure, α impure brief, α impure long, and masculine nouns ending in α pure and impure - First-class adjectives: masculine, feminine and neuter singular and plural adjectives - The declension of the irregular adjectives μέγας and πολύς: singular and plural - Articles: declension of the singular and plural of masculine, feminine and neuter articles - Complement of accompaniment and union (μετά + genitive), complements of place (παρά + accusative, περί + accusative, πρός + dative) - Direct interrogative clauses introduced by ποῖ and πόθεν - Temporal and consecutive conjunctions: ὅτε and ὥστε
Chapter V Lexicon 68 new words Grammar - Verbs contracted in -αω: I, II, III person singular and plural of the present indicative, II person singular and plural of the present imperative, and present infinitive - Verb agreement with a neuter subject - The article with δέ: pronominal function - Elision - Personal pronouns: I person singular and plural, II person singular and plural - αὐτός, αὐτή, αὐτό: III person singular and plural pronouns - Possessive adjectives: I and II person singular and plural - Adjectives: attributive and predicative position - Second declension: feminine nouns - Direct interrogative clauses introduced by ποῦ
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Chapter VI Lexicon 88 new words Grammar - The diathesis of verbs (active, middle, passive): general rules - Deponent verbs: general rules - The middle voice of verbs ending in -ω: present indicative, present imperative and present infinitive - The middle voice of verbs contracted in -εω: present indicative, present imperative and present infinitive - Uses of the dative: indirect object, dative of possession, dative of limit, instrumental dative, dative of time, dative taken by specific verbs - Review of complements: complements of motion toward and motion from, complements of location, and of accompaniment and union
Chapter VII Lexicon 96 new words Grammar - I, II, III declension: general framework - III declension: singular and plural of nouns with occlusive and nasal stems - Declension of reflexive pronouns: I, II and III person singular and plural - Declension of singular and plural II-class adjectives with a nasal stem - The pronoun and interrogatory adjective τίς, τί: singular and plural declension - The indefinite pronoun and adjective τις, τι: singular and plural declension - Direct interrogative with τίς, τί and πῶς - Complement of agent
Chapter VIII Lexicon 86 new words Grammar - Verbs ending in -ω: middle present participle - Verbs contracted in -εω: middle present participle - Middle voice of verbs contracted in -αω: conjugation of the present indicative, present imperative, present infinitive and present participle - Attributive, substantive and predicative participle - III declension: stems in -ρ and stems in -ρ with apophony - Declension of the adjective πᾶς, πᾶσα, πᾶν - Cardinal and ordinal numbers: declension of εἷς, μία, ἕν, δύο, τρεῖς, τρία and τέτταρες, τέτταρα - Declension of οὐδείς, οὐδεμία, οὐδέν - Complement of motion through - Causal clauses with the indicative introduced by δίοτι
Chapter IX Lexicon
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78 new words Grammar - The verb “to be”: present active participle - Verbs ending in -ω: present active participle - Verbs contracted in -εω: present active participle - Verbs contracted in -αω: present active participle - III declension: stems in –ευ - Uses of the genitive: complement of specification, possessive genitive, partitive genitive, prepositions with the genitive, genitive taken by verbs - Uses of the article: substantivized participle
Chapter X Lexicon 40 new words Grammar - III declension: stems ending in vowels - Impersonal verbs: construction of δεῖ and ἔξεστι - Review of direct interrogatives - Review of verb forms
Chapter XI Lexicon 83 new words Grammar - The aorist: general framework and verbal aspect - Augment: syllabic and temporal augment - Second aorist: conjugation of the indicative, imperative, infinitive, participle: and middle and active - Second aorist: irregular verbs - Impersonal construct of δοκέω - Implicit concessive clause (καίπερ + participle)
Chapter XII Lexicon 115 new words Grammar - First aorist: conjugation of the indicative, imperative, participle and infinitive: middle and active - The verb “to be”: imperfect indicative - Augment in composite verbs
Chapter XIII Lexicon 124 new words Grammar - Imperfect: general framework and verbal aspect
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- Imperfect: active and middle conjugation of verbs ending in -ω, and of verbs contracted in -εω and in –αω - Relative pronouns - Relative clauses - III declension: nouns with the stem ending in -εσ- - II-class adjectives: adjectives with a stem ending in -εσ- - Complement of determinate and continuous time
Chapter XIV Lexicon 94 new words Grammar - Adjectives: general framework of degrees of comparison - Adjectives: comparative and superlative - The absolute comparative - Irregular comparatives and superlatives - Adverbs: degrees of comparison - Complement of comparison - Complement of cause - Superlatives preceded by ὡς - Demonstrative pronouns: οὗτος, ὅδε, ἐκεῖνος - Indefinite adverbs - The explicit causal clause introduced by ὡς - The temporal clause introduced by ἕως
Chapter XV Lexicon 85 new words Grammar - Third aorist: active indicative, imperative, participle and infinitive - Verbs contracted in -οω: active and middle present and imperfect indicative, middle and active present imperative, middle and active present infinitive, middle and active present participle - II declension: contracted nouns
Chapter XVI Lexicon 117 new words Grammar - The deponent verbs δύναμαι, κεῖμαι, ἐπίσταμαι: indicative present and imperfect, present imperative, present participle and present infinitive - III declension: stems in –ϝ - Cardinal and ordinal numbers: tens, hundreds, and thousands - Numeral adverbs
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