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Review 1.11: Tenses of the verb

Synopsis in the 3rd person singular

 

Stems

Tenses

Indicative Mood

Imperative Mood

Infinitive (not a Mood)

Present:  παυ- 

 Present 

παύει he stops (someone or something)

παυέτω

let him stop (someone or something)

παύειν

to stop (someone or something)

 

Imperfect 

ἔπαυε he was stopping, used to

stop  (someone or something)

Only the Indicative Mood has an Imperfect

Only the Indicative Mood has an Imperfect

Future:  παυ-σ-

Future 

παύσει he will stop (s/one or s/thing)

NO FUTURE IMPERATIVE 

παύσειν to be about to stop (someone or something)

Aorist:  παυ-σα-

Aorist 

ἔπαυσε he stopped (s/one or s/thing)

παυσάτω

same  translation as

Present Imperative:

let him stop (s/one or something)

παῦσαι

same translation as

Present Infinitive: 

to stop 

(someone or something)