Attic Greek Personal Pronouns

Our first pronoun is the greek equivalent he she it.

Attic greek personal pronouns.

Possessive pronouns κτητικές αντωνυμίες. The use of personal pronouns with verbs is not obligatory as persons are indicated by the unique personal endings of the verbs. The simple sentence consists of the main clause the man has a goat. Personal pronouns are declinable words that express the first second or third person and may be used instead of nouns.

The personal pronouns including reflexives and reciprocals. The forms placed within brackets are the weak forms the other are the emphatic ones. Another complication of greek grammar is that different greek authors wrote in different dialects all of which have slightly different grammatical forms see ancient greek dialects.

While the definite article has the stem τ this pronoun has the stem αὐτ. Note also that the resulting form is accented as though it were a regular first or second declension noun with a persistent ultima accent s 329. Greek uses a single pronoun for all of these and declines it by gender number and case. An intensive course and mastronarde s introduction to attic greek but are mainly meant to provide one page overviews of some important verbal paradigms satisfactory versions of many of which i have failed to find in english language greek textbooks.

οἷ and σφίσι occur oftenest and are reflexive 200. In its place is used αὐτός in the oblique cases. Nom gen acc voc singular 1e person 2e person. Paradigm gender and number case attraction inverse attraction the words who which and what are relative pronouns when they are used to introduce a relative clause.

The personal pronoun of the third person is rare in attic prose. More in the file below. αὐτός αὐτή αὐτό ν is declined like σοφός 76 except that there is no vocative and the neuter singular nominative and accusative.

3rd person personal pronoun. I expect that many. I shall go you will not go anywhere. Note also that the resulting form is accented as though it were a regular first or second declension noun with a persistent ultima accent s 329.

The man who lives next to me has a goat. Personal pronouns may be used to add emphassis. εγώ ζα πάω εσύ δελ ζα παο πνπζελά. Lesson 7 relative pronouns.

The following table shows the declension of the personal pronouns. Note that for this pronoun attic greek combines the personal and reflexive pronouns into one form for both the singular and plural. Nouns adjectives pronouns articles numerals and especially verbs are all highly inflected. The dual and plural are νώ nṓ and ἡμεῖς hēmeîs.