> I don't remember any more: How many verb forms are there in Attic Greek?
Too dang many. ;-)
voice: active, middle, passive
mood: indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative, infinitive, participle
tense: present, imperfect, future, aorist, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
person: first, second, third
number: singular, dual, plural
gender (for particples): masculine, feminine, neuter
Smyth's Greek Grammar lists (counting alternate forms) 396 forms for
the "regular" verb conjugation in -omega.
And that is before you start figuring the different sets of endings for
contracted vowel stem verbs, consonant stem verbs, -mi stem verbs and
a couple hundred irregular verbs on top of that!
--Ken
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