Learn Ancient Greek: 9_Unit 2 Present and Imperfect Active Indicative

Leonard Muellner (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University) and Belisi Gillespie present all the content covered in two semesters of an Introduction to Ancient Greek college course. Both the “present active indicative“ and the “imperfect active indicative“ pertain to the “imperfective aspect“ that we discussed in the previous video (referred to as “progressive aspect“ in the Hansen & Quinn textbook). Professor Muellner provides some verb form paradigms (and the patterns behind them) and explains the nuances in meaning behind them. Similar paradigms and discussions can be found on pages 45-48 in the textbook.