Conditional clauses in Ancient Greek are clauses which start with εἰ (ei) "if" or ἐάν (eān) "if (it may be)". ἐάν (eān) can be contracted to ἤν (ḗn) or...
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Conditional clauses in Latin are clauses which start with the conjunction sī 'if' or the equivalent. The 'if'-clause in a conditional sentence is known...
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In the grammar of Ancient Greek, an aorist (pronounced /ˈeɪ.ərɪst/ or /ˈɛərɪst/) (from the Ancient Greek ἀόριστος aóristos, 'undefined') is a type of verb...
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Greek grammar is that different Greek authors wrote in different dialects, all of which have slightly different grammatical forms (see Ancient Greek dialects)...
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often used in indefinite conditional or similar clauses referring to the future or indefinite present time. These can be: Clauses referring to a single event...
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Irrealis mood (section Conditional)
In the Romance languages, the conditional form is used primarily in the apodosis (main clause) of conditional clauses, and in a few set phrases where...
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Grammatical mood (section Conditional)
example, the subjunctive and optative moods in Ancient Greek alternate syntactically in many subordinate clauses, depending on the tense of the main verb....
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Ancient Greek verbs have four moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive and optative), three voices (active, middle and passive), as well as three persons...
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The Ancient Greek accent is believed to have been a melodic or pitch accent. In Ancient Greek, one of the final three syllables of each word carries an...
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Perfect (grammar) (section Ancient Greek)
The Ancient Greek perfect developed from the PIE perfect (stative) form; in both cases the stem is typically formed by reduplication. In Greek, however...
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the pronunciation of Attic Greek and other Ancient Greek dialects are unknown, but it is generally agreed that Attic Greek had certain features not present...
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In Ancient Greek, all nouns are classified according to grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and are used in a number (singular, dual, or...
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History of logic (redirect from Ancient Greek logic)
valid inference (logic). Formal logics developed in ancient times in India, China, and Greece. Greek methods, particularly Aristotelian logic (or term logic)...
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is a grammatical mood of the Ancient Greek verb, named for its use as a way to express wishes. The optative mood in Greek is found in four different tenses...
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brackets and romanization of Greek according to UN/ELOT rules in italics. The grammar of Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece and Cyprus, is essentially...
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Tense–aspect–mood (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
simples), but is named for the mood (conditional) that it expresses. In Ancient Greek, the perfect tense (Ancient Greek: χρόνος παρακείμενος, romanized: khrónos...
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The Ancient Greek infinitive is a non-finite verb form, sometimes called a verb mood, with no endings for person or number, but it is (unlike in Modern...
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Sabaic (section Position of clauses)
subordinate clauses using various conjunctions: In Sabaic, relative clauses are marked by a Relativiser like ḏ-, ʾl, mn-; in free relative clauses this marking...
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The Ancient Greek participle is a non-finite nominal verb form declined for gender, number and case (thus, it is a verbal adjective) and has many functions...
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occur most often, although not exclusively, in subordinate clauses, particularly that-clauses. Examples of the subjunctive in English are found in the sentences...
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Optative mood (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
(May the devil take you) In Ancient Greek, the optative is used to express wishes and potentiality in independent clauses (but also has other functions...
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Eastern Catholic patriarchs, Macedonian Orthodox Church, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych. His Excellency (abbreviation HE)...
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Anapodoton (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
anapodoton (from Ancient Greek ἀναπόδοτον anapódoton: "that which lacks an apodosis", that is, the consequential clause in a conditional sentence), plural...
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Genitive absolute (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
In Ancient Greek grammar, the genitive absolute is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun both in the genitive case, which...
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The conditional preservation of the saints, or conditional perseverance of the saints, or commonly conditional security, is the Arminian Christian belief...
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Participle (redirect from Participle clause)
periphrastic verb forms (continuous and perfect) and are widely used in adverbial clauses. In non-Indo-European languages, 'participle' has been applied to forms...
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Philo the Dialectician (category Ancient Greek logicians)
Philo the Dialectician (Greek: Φίλων; fl. 300 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian (Dialectical) school. He is sometimes called Philo of Megara...
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Latin tenses (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
alive (now)!' In a conditional clause representing an unreal situation in present time, the imperfect subjunctive is used in both clauses: scrīberem ad tē...
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Future perfect (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
temporal clauses, but not its sequence relative to the action in the main clause. In conditional, relative, comparative and some other types of clauses it signifies...
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