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Vocabulary in Lessons 1-3

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nouns    verbs    pronouns    adjectives    adverbs    prepositions    conjunctions    particles

Nouns  

ὁ ἀδελφός = brother

ὁ ἄνθρωπος = man (human being)

ὁ βίος = life

ὁ διδάσκαλος = teacher

ὁ δοῦλος = slave

τὸ δένδρον = tree

τὸ δῶρον = gift

ὁ θάνατος = death

ὁ θεός = god, God

ὁ ἰατρός = doctor

τὸ ἱερόν  =  (neuter noun of the 2nd declension) = temple

ὁ Ἰωάν(ν)ης, ου  = John

ὁ ἵππος = horse

ὁ κύριος = master, lord

ὁ λόγος = story, reason; in Biblical Greek = word

ὁ οἶκος  = house

ὁ πόλεμος  = war

ὁ πόνος = toil, labor

ὁ σῖτος = food

τὸ ὕδωρ (neuter of the 3rd declension, not studied yet) = water

ὁ υἱός = son

ὁ ὕπνος = sleep

ὁ φίλος = friend

ὁ Χριστός = Christ

Verbs

ἀκούω = to hear (+ genitive of the person, acc of the thing heard)

διδάσκω  = to teach

διώκω  = to chase, pursue

ἐγκωμιάζω  = to praise

εἰσί(ν)  = (they) are

ἐστί(ν) = (he, she, it) is

ἔχω = to have

θαυμάζω  = to admire, wonder at

θεραπεύω = to heal

θύω, θύσω  = to offer sacrifice

λέγω  = to say, speak

λούω, λούσω  = to wash

μαρτυρέω  = to bear witness

παύω, παύσω  = to stop (someone or something)

πείθω, πείσω  = to persuade

πέμπω  = to send

πιστεύω, πιστεύσω + dat = to trust, believe in

φέρω = to bring, carry, bear

φεύγω = to flee, shun

χορεύω, χορεύσω  = to dance

Pronouns

ἐγώ  =  I

σύ =  you (sg)

ἐκεῖνος =  he (It is actually a demostrative meaning "that man," "that one."  The personal pronoun of the third person,  αὐτός, would create the wrong impression here, because in the nominative it usually is emphatic = "he himself." 

ἡμεῖς =  we

ὑμεῖς =  you (pl)

ἐκεῖνοι  =  they (the plural nominative of  ἐκεῖνος)

Pronouns or Adjectives

τί  = what?   

τίς;  = who? which?  

Adjectives

ἀγαθός = good, brave

κακός  = bad, cowardly, evil

καλός = fine, noble

μακρός  = large, long

νέος  = new, young

ὀρθός = straight, correct

πονηρός  = wicked

σοφός  = wise

χρήσιμος  = useful

Adverbs

μή  = no, not (used instead of οὐ with commands)

οὐ / οὐκ   = no, not; it takes the form οὐκ  before a word beginning with a vowel, and the form  οὐχ before an aspirate consonant or a rough breathing.

Conjunctions  

ἀλλά  = but

καί  = and

Particles (postpositive = in the second position of the group of words to which they pertain)

γάρ  =  for (causal)

μέν ... δέ = when used as a pair of correlatives, they may connect or contrast two elements. They may be translated literally as "on the one hand"..."on the other hand."

οὖν  =  therefore