ritten primarily for the tourist or business traveler with limited learning time, this concise, well-organized grammar provides a clear-cut system for learning to communicate, in both speech and writing, in simple everyday Greek. The book will introduce you to the most common structures and forms of Modern Greek and to a selection of the most useful rules, enabling you to achieve reasonable fluency in a short period of time. The book opens with helpful suggestions for vocabulary building, then covers the major divisions of grammar: the alphabet, word order, negation, nouns and articles, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, verbs, participles and more. Complicated sentences are avoided in favor of simple constructions and sentence patterns that will allow you to communicate and be understood on a basic level. Many easy-to-understand examples are given, enabling you to test your grasp of grammatical rules. Ideal for self-study or as a supplement to a first-year course, Essential Modern Greek Grammar offers a rapid easy-to-use method for mastering the fundamentals of Modern Greek. For those with some knowledge of Modern Greek, it is an excellent review and refresher course.
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To English speakers, the verbs of Modern Greek appear much more complicated than those of their own tongue. While English may make nearly as many verbal distinctions (of tense, voice, mood, person, etc.) as does Modern Greek, English usually creates complex verbal notions phrasally (e.g., “I have been seeing”), whereas Modern Greek generally expresses such notions by means of special endings added to the verb (e.g., ἀγαπιóμαστε, “we were being loved”). Since the subject pronoun is usually omitted in Modern Greek, use of the proper ending is not a grammatical nicety, but a necessity in order to be understood: ἀγαπ
(I love); ἀγαπ
με (we love). Also, while English and Modern Greek may make about the same number of verbal distinctions, they do not always make the same kinds of distinctions, so that often there is no simple, one-to-one correspondence between English and Modern Greek verbal forms.
The Second Person in Modern Greek
The second person singular is used in Modern Greek only with members of the family or close friends. In more formal situations, the second person plural is used even when addressing one person. All the second person forms are labeled in this chapter “familiar singular” (FAM. SING.) or “plural, formal singular” (PL., FORM. SING.) to show that one form is used to address one person in a f...
