Modern Greek Vocabulary: The Verbs

By Ajax Fast-Track Languages

This book presents the most common verbs of Modern Greek, embedded in example sentences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ajax Fast-Track Languages
• Release date: Oct 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463924976

Ajax Fast-Track Languages

Ajax Fast-Track Languages is a sister project of Hermes Language Reference, dealing with modern languages as a means to grasp a better hold of ancient languages. https://hermeslanguagereference.wordpress.com/ajax-fast-track-languages/

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Modern Greek Vocabulary

THE VERBS

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Introduction

This book offers fast-track vocabulary training in the VERBS of Modern Greek. It is primarily aimed at intermediate level learners who wish to refresh and improve rapidly their lexical background in Modern Greek, but beginners could also profit from it.

The verbs are introduced via various example sentences, which address different registers of the Greek language, from the official, formal one, to every-day, informal expressions. Some other linguistic parallels (nouns, adverbs, adjectives) are underlined or highlighted in each pair of bilingual sentences.

The alphabetical order of verbs is avoided, to make their introduction more natural.

Each pair of examples begins with simpler sentences (for the beginner learners), and has at the end longer/more complicated ones (for intermediate learners). The locutions in which the verbs play a part, indicated after each verb definition, are also intended for the intermediate learners. Beginner learners may just wish to skip reading them in the first instance, if they sound too complicated, and come back to them when re-reading.

The second part of the book offers some of Esop’s fables in Modern Greek, annotated with lexical footnotes. The fables are available from Wikisource, under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (https://el.wikisource.org/wiki/Αισώπου_Μύθοι)

These fables will offer the reader the chance to re-encounter in short, but cohesive narratives, some of the verbs treated in the vocabulary builder.

For French readers, we recommend warmly the ‘Vocabulaire grec-les verbs’ volume, which we have published through our sister-project, Hermes Language Reference.

A. Vocabulary builder

πηγαίνω/πάω (past πήγα)

get, go, wend, repair, function

πήγα να – to be close to (doing/suffering something)

πάω λάθος – to malfunction

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Πάμε;

Are we going?

Θα πάω στην Ελλάδα.

I will go to Greece.

Το ρολόι πάει λάθος.

The clock does not function.

Πήγα να κοιμηθώ.

Ι almost fell asleep/I was on the point of falling asleep.

Ένα γεράκι πάει και πιάνει το αηδόνι. (Esop)

One hawk goes and catches the nightgale.

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θέλω  (past ήθελα)

to want  

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Απλά θέλω να βοηθήσω. 

I just want to help. 

Ειναι εδω