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Participle · Grammar concept
Participle: Luo medio-passive
Luo medio-passive is a participle topic in Koine (biblical) Greek. This page gathers its forms, paradigms, and function, drawn from the lessons of Reading Greek Deeply.
MorphologyParticiple – Luo medio-passive
- Suffixes for gender, number, case are added to -ομεν based on the 1st and 2nd declension noun endings.
- Be careful: the fem gen pl ending does not attract the stress like it does in many other forms, e.g. ἐρχομένων instead of ἐρχομενῶν (cf. 19.2.3.1).
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative singular | ἐρχόμεν-ος | ἐρχομέν-η | ἐρχόμεν-ον |
| Genitive singular | ἐρχομέν-ου | ἐρχομέν-ης | ἐρχομέν-ου |
| Dative singular | ἐρχομέν-ῳ | ἐρχομέν-ῃ | ἐρχομέν-ῳ |
| Accusative singular | ἐρχόμεν-ον | ἐρχομέν-ην | ἐρχόμεν-ον |
| Nominative plural | ἐρχόμεν-οι | ἐρχόμεν-αι | ἐρχόμεν-α |
| Genitive plural | ἐρχομέν-ων | ἐρχομέν-ων | ἐρχομέν-ων |
| Dative plural | ἐρχομέν-οις | ἐρχομέν-αις | ἐρχομέν-οις |
| Accusative plural | ἐρχομέν-ους | ἐρχομέν-ας | ἐρχόμεν-α |
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SyntaxParticiple (3 – Verbal nominative)
One of the syntactic characteristics of the genitive absolute is that the subject of the participle clause has to differ from the subject of the main clause (see 19.2.3.2). In order to describe a related event performed by the same subject, the verbal nominative participle is used:
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