What's new?

1. 1st declension masculine nouns.
   That sounds ominous, doesn't it? It isn't, though. 1st declension means it has an - α or an - η both of which come before - ο in the alphabet. We've learnt that 1st declension words are feminine. Well, not all. Because we already know that:
   ὁ Ξανθίας    ending in   -ας   is the name of the male slave and
   ὁ δεσπότης  ending in   ης   is his master
   Quite obviously men are men whatever their ending. We've also seen the vocative form (the form we use to call people, like: hey you there, would you please....)
   ὦ Ξανθία
   ὦ δέσποτα ( μὴ οὗτω χαλεπὸς ἴσθι )
   We'll now start using their other forms.
   

   For the ὁ δεσπότης, τοῦ δεσπότου tables, click here.
   and for the ὁ Ξανθίας, τοῦ Ξανθίου tables here.

2. More about adjectives
   We want to describe, not just name people and things, so we need to know how to do that: pay attention to adjectives. They modify nouns and are in their turn modified by them. A little attention while reading should take the sting out of that medicine.
    
   
   • Regular 1st and 2nd declension adjectives:
     a. feminine in -ᾱ (long α)
     b. feminine in -η
     c. feminine in -ος
     
   • μέγας, μεγάλη, μέγα, big
   • πολύς, πολλή, πολύ, much, many
   
    
   
3. Adverbs
   And we want to be able to say how things are done: quickly, slowly, rarely, disastrously.... So we need adverbs (ad-verbs modify verbs mainly, but not exclusively:
   

   	He runs quickly	quickly modifies the verb: runs
   	He runs awfully quickly	awfully modifies the adverb "quickly"
   	He's awfully clever.	awfully modifies the adjective "clever"

   That'll do for now. Click here for adverbs in Greek.