Aorist (/ˈeɪərɪst/ AY-ər-ist; abbreviated AOR) verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite. Ancient Greek...

In the grammar of Ancient Greek, an aorist (pronounced /ˈeɪ.ərɪst/ or /ˈɛərɪst/) (from the Ancient Greek ἀόριστος aóristos - ‘undefined’) is a type of...

the indicative mood there are seven tenses: present, imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of past simple), perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect...

and imperfective are known as the perfect, aorist and present systems: Stative = Perfect Perfective = Aorist Imperfective = Present The present/imperfective...

forms, and the distinctions in meaning between the imperfect, perfect and aorist forms are barely maintained and ultimately lost. Verb conjugation in Sanskrit...

is spoken in the region of modern Sparta. Doric has also passed down its aorist terminations into most verbs of Demotic Greek. By about the 6th century...

e. Smyth, paragraph 1931: Gnomic Aorist (γνώμη maxim, proverb). – The aorist may express a general truth. The aorist simply states a past occurrence and...

the past aorist and the past active aorist participle. 6 Notice that the thematic vowel и (/i/) is changed to е (/ɛ/). 7 Since the past aorist and imperfect...

repetitive action, notice that the verb is in an independent clause) Past aorist imperfective verb: Вчера четох една книга = "Yesterday, I read a book" (but...

Leonidas would have used. The form "ἔμολον" is recorded in Doric as the aorist for εἷρπον, "to go, come". The classical pronunciation is [mo.lɔ᷆ːn la.bé]...

it"). In Ancient Greek the infinitive has four tenses (present, future, aorist, perfect) and three voices (active, middle, passive). Present and perfect...

sibilant aorist is formed with the suffixation of s to the stem. The sibilant aorist by itself has four formations: athematic s-aorist athematic iṣ-aorist athematic...

mood. The imperative mood is found in three tenses (present, aorist, and perfect). The aorist is used when the speaker wants something done at once, e.g...

intensive aorist (present perfect, present continuous, past continuous) and the future (ad+aorist). Unlike other Berber languages, the aorist alone is...

dissenting opinions have occasionally been voiced. In Homer, past-tense (aorist or imperfect) verbs appeared both with and without an augment. ὣς hṑs φάτο...

aorist became increasingly marked as an archaic language feature and was eventually replaced by the other two aorist formations. The asigmatic aorist...

by Gary F. Zeolla or Greek Verbs. The form of the verb used is not the aorist imperative, which would indicate momentary or point action, but the present...

synthetic series consists of three simple tenses—the present, imperfect and aorist—and the imperative mood. 1, 2 The syllabic thematic vowel и changes to the...

conversation. The prefix is ti- with 3rd persons and ta- otherwise The aorist is used in narratives, stories, and in situations where something that happened...

(traditionally called aorist) and perfect (sometimes also called perfective; see note about terminology) imperfective and perfective/aorist (perfect is expressed...

Euler (1992ff.) explain(ed) this ending as a relict of the Indo-European aorist tense. Under this assumption, the ending -t would have replaced older -ī(z)...

best guide to the true stem, which is often more clearly manifested in the aorist or future tense forms. Note that none of these markers was productive in...

proto-middle *h2e-conjugation aorists with o/e-ablaut (later o/ø-ablaut) of the root, which gave rise to the Indo-Iranian passive aorist and the Tocharian subjunctive...

modified noun. Serbian verbs are conjugated in four past forms—perfect, aorist, imperfect, and pluperfect—of which the last two have a very limited use...

The optative mood in Greek is found in four different tenses (present, aorist, perfect and future) and in all three voices (active, middle and passive)...

Ancient first aorist infinitive suffix -αι has been replaced by second aorist suffix -ειν 4. Attachment of the /e/ sound to the ancient aorist infinitive...

mostly behaves like an ergative–absolutive language in the Series II ("aorist") screeves. That means that the subject of an intransitive verb will take...

bring that guest to my house?" The following uses the aorist indicative followed by an aorist imperative: εἰ ἤκουσάς τι τούτου τοῦ πράγματος τοῦ γενομένου...

only: the present, the aorist, and the perfect. The perfect is, however, rarely used. The difference between the present and aorist subjunctive is one of...

sigmatic aorist types (the former is generally termed the root aorist in Slavic studies), and a new productive aorist arose from the sigmatic aorist by various...