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Hi Marzia,

Thank you! You too 😄

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

Thanks

You are very kind and helpful.

Have a nice day

Marzia

Hi Marzia,

Thank you for contacting us. I'd be more than happy to help you today!

These are the lessons you need to review for the aorist tense:

https://www.greekpod101.com/lesson/intermediate-6-a-night-to-remember-in-greece/?lp=39

https://www.greekpod101.com/lesson/intermediate-7-catching-a-cold-in-the-heat-of-the-greek-summer/?lp=39

Perhaps you were looking for them in the Level 3 pathway (Intermediate pathway) which is a relatively new group combining older series such as the Lower Intermediate lessons (1-25) and Intermediate lessons (26-50) to which this lesson refers. At that time the Level 3 pathway didn't exist, hence the confusion.

Let me know if you need any more assistance!

Kind regards,

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

Hi, I cannot find in the intermediate lesson 6 and 7 the aorist that it is suggested to review.

Am I doing something wrong? Thanks

Hi Jim,

Thank you for contacting us.

Since this lesson is an Upper Intermediate level, it is aimed for students who are quite fluent and familiar by now with all the grammar terms mentioned in the title as well as the names of the tenses in both Greek and English. In this level, translations are usually provided when new terminology is introduced or vocabulary. The sigmatic aorist which is a requisite to understand what this lesson is about is explained in the Intermediate series lesson 6:

https://bit.ly/2ItQUt0

If there are any specific terms or grammar points that are unfamiliar to you, please let me know and I'll either provide a translation or link you to the corresponding lesson.

Kind regards,

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

"learn how to produce the passive voice aorist tense and perfect tense passive participle from the sigmatic active voice aorist, from a conversation with mixed levels of formality."

This is the title of this lesson. The use of these grammar terms--without any translation-- is far too difficult for most of us to grasp. Moreover, in the lesson notes they are never explained with translations--so those of us who have been out of school for years and understand the differences. I would suggest the future lessons include translations of all the tenses so we understand their differences.

Hi Elias,

I think I need to clarify a couple of things as I see there is some confusion.

Aorist or αόριστος in Greek is a past tense of a verb. It is a non-continuous past tense similar to the English simple past TENSE (not form). Ex. έφερα = I brought.

Παρατατικός is a past tense as well. It is a continuous past tense similar to the English past continuous TENSE. Ex. έφερνα = I was bringing.

Verb forms in either of these two Greek AND English past tenses can be considered as "past forms". It's just that the term "past form" is a big vague and doesn't specify the tense i.e. whether it's έφερα/I brought or έφερνα/I was bringing.

So to answer your question, έφερα is an aorist tense form which is a past form of φέρνω. But in that sense, έφερνα, a past continuous tense form, is also a past form of φέρνω.

It is important to distinguish "past tense vs past form" and use the tense names to avoid any confusion.

But the meaning of the sentence is correct:

Έφερα λίγο νερό για τον φίλο μου = I brought some water to my friend.

*τον φίλο (accusative), not τον φίλος

I hope I helped!|

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

Sorry Stefania. I wrote the questions in a hurry that's why they are confusing. Here is the question:

Is the active aorist the same as past form of a verb? active aorist = past form?

For example, έφερα (ACTIVE AORIST) is the same as past form of φέρνω (έφερα)?

Έφερα λίγο νερό για τον φίλος μου = I brought some water to my friend.

Thank you.

Hi Elias,

1) The noun ασανσέρ is indeclinable because it's a loan word (from the French "ascenceur") so it's used as it is and it never changes its forms regardless of its case and number.

2) I'm not sure I understand this question well. Did you mean if the Greek passive aorist is the same as the English past participle? If you mean Greek past participles, can you give me an example? I think you might have meant perfect tense passive voice participle (έφερα is not a participle) but I just want to make sure.

Thanks!

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

Hi Stefania,

I took a break for a while and now sometimes i get lost when i see new grammar rules.?

Two questions:

1) Η καμπίνα του ασανσέρ θέλει ανακαίνιση.= "The elevator's cabin needs renovation."

Can we also say it Η καμπίνα του ασανσέρου instead of Η καμπίνα του ασανσέρ since it's genitive?

2) Is PASSIVE AORIST the same as past participle?

έφερα (ACTIVE AORIST) is the same as past participle of φέρνω (έφερα)

Thank you.