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Vocabulary in Lessons 1-2

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Nouns  

ὁ ἄνθρωπος = man (human being)

ὁ διδάσκαλος = teacher

ὁ δοῦλος = slave

ὁ θεός = god, God

ὁ ἰατρός = doctor

τὸ ἱερόν  =  (neuter noun of the 2nd declension, not studied yet) = temple

ὁ ἵππος = horse

ὁ κύριος = master, lord

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

ὁ οἶκος  = house

ὁ πόνος = toil, labor

ὁ σῖτος = food

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

ὁ υἱός = son

ὁ φίλος = friend

ὁ Χριστός = Christ

 

Verbs

διδάσκω  = "I teach."  The first person sg of the verb is used to cite it; henceforward the vocabulary will give the English infinitive as equivalent.

ἐστί(ν) = (he, she, it) is

εἰσί(ν) = they are

ἔχω = to have

θεραπεύω = to heal

λέγω  = to say, speak

πέμπω  = to send

φέρω = to bring, carry, bear

φεύγω = to flee, shun

 

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)

 

Adjectives

ἀγαθός = good, brave

κακός  = bad, cowardly, evil

καλός = fine, noble

μακρός  = large, long

νέος  = new, young

ὀρθός = straight, correct

 

Adverbs

οὐ = no, not;  (but μή is the negation with imperatives)

 

Conjunctions  

ἀλλά  = but

καί  = and

 

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

γάρ  =  for (causal)

οὖν  =  therefore