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εἶμι
εἶμι
See also: εἰμί
Ancient Greek
Verb
εἶμῐ • (eîmi)
Usage notes
The present indicative (but not the other moods) has a future meaning: "I will go". The rest of the moods and tenses are supplied from ἔρχομαι (érkhomai) and ἦλθον (êlthon).
Inflection
Present: εἶμι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | εἶμι | εἶ | εἶσῐ/εἶσῐν | ἴτον | ἴτον | ἴμεν | ἴτε | ἴᾱσῐ/ἴᾱσῐν | ||||
| subjunctive | ἴω | ἴῃς | ἴῃ | ἴητον | ἴητον | ἴωμεν | ἴητε | ἴωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | ἴοιμῐ | ἴοις | ἴοι | ἴοιτον | ἰοίτην | ἴοιμεν | ἴοιτε | ἴοιεν | |||||
| imperative | ἴθῐ | ἴτω | ἴτον | ἴτων | ἴτε | ἰόντων | |||||||
| active | |||||||||||||
| infinitive | ἰέναι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | ἰών | |||||||||||
| f | ἰοῦσᾰ | ||||||||||||
| n | ἰόν | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Imperfect: ᾖᾰ/ᾔειν
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ᾖᾰ/ᾔειν | ᾔεισθᾰ/ᾔεις | ᾔειν/ᾔει | ᾖτον | ᾔτην | ᾖμεν | ᾖτε | ᾖσᾰν/ᾔεσᾰν | ||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- ἴθμα (íthma)
- ἰσθμός (isthmós)
References
- εἶμι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- εἶμι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- εἶμι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «εἶμι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «εἶμι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- «εἶμι» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- εἶμι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter