Middle Voice
[ἀφικνέ-εσθαι] ἀφικνεῖσθαι, to arrive
Who |
arrives | where from where? | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | ἀφικν | οῦ μαι | ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν. | |
| do you? | ἆρα | ἀφικν | εῖ|ῇ | ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀσίας; |
| he/she/it | ἀφικν | εῖ ται | εἰς τὸ θέατρον. | |
| we | ἀφικν | ού μεθα | ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀγροῦ. | |
| do you? | ἆρα | ἀφικν | εῖ σθε | μόνοι ἢ μετὰ φίλων; (alone or with friends?) |
| they | ἀφικν | οῦ νται | εἰς τὴν Κρήτην. | |
| Here the uncontracted forms: Note that, wherever the stem -e has an acute in the uncontracted form it will have a circumflex in the contracted form. Only the we-form, being acutely pitched on the antepenult will keep its acute accent in the contracted form as well. Long or short, the antepenult can never be circumflexed. |
| [ἀφικνέ-ομαι] | ||
| [ἀφικνέ-ει|ῃ] | ||
| [ἀφικνέ-εται] | ||
| [ἀφικνε-όμεθα] | ||
| [ἀφικνέ-εσθε] | ||
| [ἀφικνέ-ονται] |
The other contract verb in -ε in this lesson is:
to fear - [φοβέ-εσθαι] φοβεῖσθαι
Your turn now to practice filling in a jumbled-up FEAR table
| Who? | uncontracted forms | contracted forms |
|---|---|---|
| he, she or it |  |
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| you all | |
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| you my friend | |
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| I | |
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| they | |
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| we | |
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| Which rules of contraction are applied? | ||
| 1. έ + ε becomes........... 2. έ + ει becomes........... 3. έ + ῃ becomes........... 4. έ + ο becomes........... 5. ε + ό becomes........... | ||
Practice these forms of ἀφικνεῖσθαι and φοβεῖσθαι in a meaningful way, i.e. use the right half of your brain (pictures, sounds, smells, feelings):
Who or what arrives? where? when?
What are you afraid of? not afraid of? Who else is afraid of what?