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Good question! It is unfortunate that this meaning is not in that particular dictionary, as it is otherwise a handy dictionary for those learning Greek. In response to your question, I suppose that they have not included it since it is one of the less common meanings of ἀποβαινω, even though it is the literal meaning of the verb. This illustrates my point that compound verbs do often have less predictable meanings. So the answer to your question is yes - although "go away" is indeed one of the meanings of ἀποβαινω, the Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary does not have space to list all the meanings of words. You can access the LSJ (which is much more comprehensive) using the website or app Logeion. Here is the link to the LSJ entry for ἀποβαινω on Logeion, which does indeed include "go away" or "depart": logeion.uchicago.edu/ἀποβαίνω. All the best!

@@LearnAncientGreek Allright, thank you! I have another question: Do compound verbs always elide when possible? Or is it random, like with prepositions?

I am very happy to hear that! You're welcome :)

Hey Ethan, I'm glad to hear that. In response to your question, by learning Classical Greek, you will certainly be able to read Koine Greek, because Koine Greek is a simpler version of Classical Greek. But by learning Classical, you will have the added bonus of being able to read texts even further back in the past (like those of Plato) if you ever wish to! I should mention that I myself learned Classical Greek, but I have since read Koine Greek texts (without having learned Koine separately), and I find them much easier to read than Classical Greek texts. There are some words that have different meanings in Koine, but a lot of (perhaps even most) words have the same/similar meanings. I should note that the course that I am making here is currently unfinished (and will be for a while, since I am releasing one lesson a week), so if you need to learn Greek in a hurry, then you will need to go beyond my course. I hope this helps and wish you all the best!

Amazing, thanks for the clarification! My class is slowly walking through the language, so it’ll be learned over the course of two years. Therefore, I don’t see it being much of a problem. In fact, I actually think I’m way ahead of most of my peers thanks to your lessons ;) I’m beyond thankful for your teaching skills, and am thrilled to be learning classical Greek. Ethan

I am happy to hear that! :) Thank you very much for all of your comments; I'm glad that you're finding the lessons useful and enjoyable!

Здравствуйте! Большое спасибо за Ваш комментарий. Я очень рад слышать, что мой курс полезный. Я учу русский язык каждый день сейчас, потому что моя жена русская) Русский и древнегреческий языки очень похожи, не правда ли?)

@ Здравствуйте! Очень приятно это читать! Да, русский и греческий очень похожи) Например, мое имя - Екатерина - греческого происхождения.

@@EkaterinaLevitskaya Понятно. Сейчас я знаю новое русское слово, а именно «происхождение», поэтому я хочу сказать вам большое спасибо ещё раз. Удачи с деревнигреческим - если у вас есть вопросы, просто задавайте!)

Do you mean that you would be fine with me mentioning that "Bill" kindly donated in support of the channel? :)

Yes.

@@fwboring802 Okay, thank you for confirming that, I shall do so in my next lesson :) Do you mind if I display the comment you made when you donated? It would show your username. If you'd prefer just "Bill" alone, please let me know. Thanks again!

Just "Bill", please. Thank you.

You're very welcome! :) I am really happy to hear that my videos have helped you to learn Greek.

Hi Susi, yes - there is a third JACT book named _Reading Greek: An Independent Study Guide_ and that book contains both translations of the texts and answers to the exercises. I have put the Amazon link to this book beneath my message. However, please note that there are some mistakes in its answers to the exercises, so if you ever doubt that the book is correct, do double check using the _Grammar and Exercises_ to find out if you are correct or if the book is correct. I hope that helps, and thank you once again for supporting my channel! Amazon link to the book: www.amazon.co.uk/Independent-Study-Guide-Reading-Greek/dp/0521698502/

Thank you! :)

I'm very happy to hear that! :)

Thank you for your comment - I'm glad to hear that my explanations help and I shall continue to explain the meanings of new grammatical terms :)

Hi Dustin, all 3d nouns are male names but not all male names are 3d nouns; some male names belong to other subgroups. In particular, some male names are 1d nouns, like Εὐρῑπιδης (Euripides) and Ἀναξαγορᾱς (Anaxagoras), some are 2a nouns, like Ὁμηρος (Homer), and others are 3a nouns, like Πλατων (Plato). That is why the declension of Plato's name is not taught here, since his name is a 3a noun, not a 3d noun. Good question about your name in Greek. If you transliterated it letter for letter, it would be Δυστιν. Some foreign names were indeclinable in Greek - I have seen this in Koine Greek for example, where foreign names like Ἰωσηφ (Joseph) and Ἰακωβ (Jacob) are indeclinable. However, I know that in the Classical period, the Greeks did "Hellenise" foreign names - that is, they made them conform to the phonetics and grammar of Greek. Your name, for example, could be Hellenised as Δυστινος and then function as a 2a noun. Finally, thank you for sharing your ideas pertaining to the contraction question. All the best! :)

I'm glad to hear that :) You're welcome; keep up the good work!

You're welcome! I am very happy to hear that you found the video useful :)

Sounds like you are a student of Theology in Germany ?

Thank *you* so much for your incredibly generous support! I greatly appreciate it. Do you mind if I mention your support and thank you for it in my next Greek lesson? I would love to recognise and thank you for your great generosity :) It's fine if you would prefer that I did not, though. Thank you very much once again!

I intend for Lesson 36 to cover adjectives (2-1-2 adjectives in particular), and that lesson should be released on 16th November. I am first going to cover prefixes and particles in Lessons 34 and 35, respectively :)

@LearnAncientGreek 😭😭😭 That's gonna take a lot of time. My midterms is just around the corner 🥲🥲

@@TheBuilderTalkShow I'm sorry about that! I wish you the best of luck with your midterms though :)

Very true! I am glad that you can understand/relate to my dislike of ἐπι! Thanks for your comment :)

Haha

"Sphere" does in fact come from σφαιρᾱ, and apparently "fugitive" does not exactly come from φευγω, however, both "fugitive" and φευγω ultimately come from the same Proto-Indo-European root, so they are connected :) Thank you for your comment!

Nice discoveries; thank you for sharing those!

Good question! A female poet would be a ποιητρια (1b noun)

You're welcome; thank you very much for your comment! :) I hope that you achieve your goal of reading the _Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_ in Greek, and I am happy to hear that you found the video helpful; I hope that you find my other videos similarly helpful. If you ever have a question about Greek, feel free to post it in the comments, and I should be able to help :) All the best!

You're welcome; thank you for your comment :) I agree about the New Testament being accessible; the parts of it that I have read in Greek have been written in the nicest (i.e., easiest, clearest) Greek that I have ever read. It is a joy to read and I wish you luck with learning Greek in order to read it and the Septuagint. Thanks again for your comment. All the best! :)

You're welcome :) What kind of Greek is that? The start of it looks like Modern Greek but it has a breathing mark, which Modern Greek does not have. Also, what is Universal Primer? I haven't heard of it. Thanks for your comment!

@@LearnAncientGreek It seems to be part of ChatGPT - which is far from perfect. Seems Universal Primer isn't much better. Have only used it a couple of times. Better stick to tried and tested! :-)

@@fredrutter610 I see! That explains it then :) The first two words in your Greek sentence seem like they are Modern Greek, while the rest of the sentence seems like Ancient Greek. And yes, I agree that we should stick with the tried and tested methods. I have tried using AI for some questions concerning Ancient Greek, and although it can often translate Ancient Greek into English accurately, it really cannot answer a lot of grammatical questions correctly yet. Moreover, judging by the sentence that you shared, it has some issues with English to Ancient Greek too (since it seemed to include different kinds of Greek in the same sentence). Thanks again for your comment :)

Wow, I wasn't aware of the origin of " 's " before (I have never studied Old English); that is really cool, thank you for sharing that!

@@kerrrumba Hi, to answer your first question: I was indeed saying that, yes; moreover, I was saying that the second τα is a repeated definite article being used to deploy the prepositional phrase (and this means that the prepositional phrase is applying to what was mentioned with τα before, namely τα χρηματα). The repeated article construction can be used to deploy prepositional phrases as well as genitive phrases. However, neither prepositional phrases nor genitive phrases _need_ to be deployed using this construction; it is just one way of deploying them. To answer your second question: no, it is not always neuter; the gender depends upon the gender of the noun that the prepositional phrase is applying to. For example, you could see the following phrase: ὁ ἀνηρ ὁ ἐν τῳ ποταμῳ. This would literally mean, “The man, the one in the river”, but we would typically translate it as “The man in the river”. In this example, the masculine nominative singular form of the definite article has been repeated to apply a prepositional phrase to that noun and this gives us more detail about that noun. And the reason that the original and repeated forms of the definite article are masculine in this example is because the noun ἀνηρ is masculine. I hope that this helps? :)

@@LearnAncientGreek Thank you.

@@kerrrumba You’re welcome :)

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