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Saturday Centus ‘He said. She said.’ … it is all Greek to me

July 17, 2012

Week 114

When at 45 years old I began to learn Classical Greek; I thought I knew enough about the English language.  Did I heck? Before long I was lost in grammatical terms I had never heard of; let alone comprehend. Thus, began the rocky road of discovery into the formation of a simple sentence.  Nominative, accusative, voice, mood and the first conjugation active verbs in present tense.  While the first and second person pronouns are without gender,  the third person singular, dual and plural has one the three genders; masculine feminine and neuter. He said, she said and it said.  Bet you wished you’d never asked!

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    GHS permalink
    September 3, 2016 11:41 pm

    And what does Centus mean?

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