Avant-garde Greek Assignment 7

 18 June 09:17   Assignment 7: Acquiescent imperfect, comparisons, expressions of time

    =Passive amiss tense=

    Review of the present passive; ????????????, to trust:

    The acquiescent imperfect, like the alive imperfect, indicates an activity in the accomplished that was ongoing:

    =Comparisons=

    Comparisons of adjectives like -er and -est in English are bidding using the endings -????? and -?????:

    Note the about-face in the emphasis against the end of the word. The accepted chat ???????, big, has the aberrant anatomy ???????????.

    The chat ??? can be acclimated instead:

    Vocabulary:

    =Expressions of time =

    =Reading=

    ???? ????????? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ?????


    ???????? ??? ??????? ????? ???? ?????·


    ?? ???? ????????? ?????? ???, ????? ?????????.

    ??? ??? ???? ?????? ????????? ??? ???????????


    ????????? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ??????


    ??? ???? ??? ??????, ??? ????, ? ???????.

    ????? ??? ?????? ????· ?? ???????, ?? ????????.


    ? ?? ??????? ? ?????? ??? ???? ???? ???????


    ??? ????. ?? ???????? ?????, ?? ???????? ?????.

    ??? ??????????? ? ??????? ??? ??? ?????·


    ??? ??? ??? ????????????? ????? -- ?? ??????! --


    ??? ?????? ??? ?????· «?????. ????? ????? ?????».

    ??????? ????? ??? ???????· ??? ????


    ???? ???????. ??? ?????? ??? ?????


    ??? ???????? ?????? ???? ??? ????????.

    ....?? ?? ?? ???? ?? ????????? ??? ?? ???????


    ? ????? ??????????. ?? ???????????


    ???? ????????? ????????????? ?? ???????.

    ???????????? ?. ??????? (1897)

    An old man is sitting, angled over the table in the aback of the blatant coffeehouse, a bi-weekly in foreground of him, companionless.

    And in the anguish of afflicted old age, he thinks how little he enjoyed the years if he was able and beautiful, and had a say in things.

    He knows hes actual old; he can feel it and see it. Still the time if he was adolescent seems like yesterday. What a abbreviate time, what a abbreviate time.

    And he thinks what a ambush Abstemiousness has played on him; how he trusted her -- what folly! -- and how she aria if she said, Tomorrow. Theres consistently tomorrow.

    He remembers the passions he controlled, and the joys he anesthetized by. Now those absent opportunities apish his absurd wisdom.

    But all that cerebration and canonizing makes him dizzy, and he avalanche comatose in the coffeehouse, angled over the table.