GRAMMAR
I don't know why I didin't just put this in the index but it doesn't really matter either way I guess
The absolute first thing you should know about Ancient Greek's grammar is that it uses the Greek Alphabet (which has actually remained relatively the same since ancient times).
Ancient Greek uses five main grammatical cases, those being nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and vocative. These help you identify what the function of a word is in a sentence.
The main point of this is to be able to identify what the functions or labels of a word are which helps a ton when you're translating texts. Not to be able to form them yourself.
I might not always apply accents because I focus more on translation and accents for the most part only affect pronunciation
Ancient Greek also has a ton of things you need to memorize and it also makes life a lot easier if you're focused on translation
CONTENT
- declensions
- nominative
- accusative
- articles
- root words
- articles
Example
'ο θεος αποκτεινει παιδας'
or 'the god is killing children'
'ο θεος' is nominative, we can see that because the article is 'o' is nominative, masculine and singular. 'oς' is also nominative and singular according to the second declension.
The present and I-form of 'αποκτεινει' is 'ἀποκτείνω'. Removing the suffix '-ω' (I-form) and adding '-ει' (he/she form) gives us 'αποκτεινει'.
The word 'παιδας' is in the 3rd declension (and accusative plural if you know your stuff) because its genitive form's suffix does not match with either the 1st or 2nd declension.