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1. The good news is that the vast majority of verbs have a first aorist, and only a few have a second aorist. The bad news is that these few verbs are used very, very, very, very frequently!
2. Some verbs have both a first aorist and a second aorist. Lucky them!
3. What set of personal endings do second aorists take in the active? What other tense is it the same as?
4. Say you have a verb with a prepositional prefix, say, "apopheugeis". (No, not YOU. It's not that bad, really.) So. Where would you add the augment?
5. The way to tell strong aorists from imperfects is usually whether the word in question uses the aorist stem or the present stem, which is usually the aorist stem with a few consonants added or vowels changed. The only sure way to know is to memorize the principle parts of the verb, but they do fall into several broad categories. Hence, the next few questions. Which of the following words (given in the aorist) does NOT form its present tense stem by adding two nu's?
6. How do "edOke", "hestEka", and "ethEka" form their present tense?
7. The present tenses of "epese" and "egeneto" are "piptO" and "gignomai", respectively. They form their present tenses with reduplication in iota, but which of these do they also use?
8. What happens to the "e" in "leipousi", "peithousi", and "pheugousi" in the second aorist stem?
9. What is the second aorist of "hepeis"?
10. What suffix do "egnOn", "healO", "hEuron", "ethane", and "epathe" add to form their present stems?
11. What is the present stem of "eipe"?
12. Which one of these does not mean the same thing as the others?
13. What is the aorist of "hikneomai"?
14. In Book 1 of the Iliad, when Agamemnon tells off the priest Chryses, Chryses "bE d' akeOn para thina poluphloisboio thallassEs." Several lines later, when Apollo hears Chryses' prayers, he "bE de kat' oulumpoio karEnOn khOomenos kEr." What is this word "bE"? This quiz is about second aorists, so you can bet that it is a second aorist; you can tell from context that it is third person singular; but what word does it come from?
15. A couple of lines later, when Apollo reaches the Achaean camp, he fits an arrow to the string of his bow, and "ball'" Is this an aorist or an imperfect tense?
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