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    This document discusses the perfect active indicative tense in Koine Greek. It begins by explaining that Part 43 is still being finalized, so it is moving ahead to Part 44 on the perfect tense. It then reviews the three aspects - aoristic, imperfective, and perfective - visualizing them with parentheses containing different symbols. The rest of the document analyzes example Greek verb forms, identifying the morphemes, tense, and aspect of each to illustrate how the perfective aspect expresses completion or finality of an action.

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    This document discusses the perfect active indicative tense in Koine Greek. It begins by explaining that Part 43 is still being finalized, so it is moving ahead to Part 44 on the perfect tense. It then reviews the three aspects - aoristic, imperfective, and perfective - visualizing them with parentheses containing different symbols. The rest of the document analyzes example Greek verb forms, identifying the morphemes, tense, and aspect of each to illustrate how the perfective aspect expresses completion or finality of an action.

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    Notes on Greek, Pt. 44 by T. Michael W. Halcomb. Here, I mainly follow the work of Dave Black.

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    This document discusses the perfect active indicative tense in Koine Greek. It begins by explaining that Part 43 is still being finalized, so it is moving ahead to Part 44 on the perfect tense. It then reviews the three aspects - aoristic, imperfective, and perfective - visualizing them with parentheses containing different symbols. The rest of the document analyzes example Greek verb forms, identifying the morphemes, tense, and aspect of each to illustrate how the perfective aspect expresses completion or finality of an action.

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    Notes On Koine Greek: Part 44

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    1. Where’s 43?: Because I am still finalizing installation 43 in this series and I


    anticipate that it will take a little more time, I have decided to jump ahead for
    now. As soon as I finish 43, I’ll post it. Here, I want to begin looking at the
    Perfect Active Indicative.
    2. Perfect Active Indicative: Up to this point, we have been fortunate enough,
    within the Active Indicative, to look at the Imperfect, Aorist, Present and Future
    tenses. We have also looked at Aspect (Aorist, Imperfective and Perfective). To
    begin to get a grasp of the Perfect tense works, we shall start by recalling the 3
    aspects. I am mainly following the work of Dave Black here.
    3. 3 Aspects: You will recall from “Notes” #34 that there are three visual ways to
    think about aspect:
    The “aoristic” is a set of parentheses with nothing inside them. This
    Aoristic visualization shows that the aoristic aspect is NOT attempting to define any sort
    of specific action. To put it differently, it is not “limiting” the action of the
    ( )
    verb! It’s tense is “past time” and is typically rendered in English: We __ed.

    Imperfective The “imperfective” is a set of parentheses with a line inside them. This line
    denotes continuation, duration, ongoing-ness, linear-ness, habituation, etc. In
    other words, it is expressing a sort of specific action. It’s tense is “past time”
    ( __ )
    and is typically rendered in English: I was __ing / You were __ing.

    Perfective The “perfective” is a set of parentheses with a period inside them. This period
    denotes finality, completion, etc. In other words, it is expressing a sort of
    specific action. It’s tense is “past time” and is typically rendered in English: I
    ( . )
    have __ed.

    4. Becoming Perfect: Here, to equip you to be able to recognize the perfect, I


    want to use some comparisons & contrasts. Take note of how the different
    morphemes function:

    Let’s break the process down by morphemes. Here, we


    Aspect / Visuals Tense Word / Morphemes have: lexical morpheme, future-time, neutral & Person-
    Future lu|s|o|men Number Suffix. We recognize no aspect here!
    (We will
    loose)
    Here, we have: lexical morpheme, neutral & Person-
    Present lu|o|men Number Suffix. We note the imperfective aspect here as
    ( __ ) (We are the Present is truly rendered “We are loosing” and denotes
    loosing) ongoing action.
    Impf. e|lu|o|men Here, we have: past-time morpheme, lexical, neutral &
    ( __ ) (We were Person-Number Suffix. We recognize 2 particular things
    loosing) here: the past-time & impf. aspect which makes it: “We
    were loosing.” Imperfective aspect shows continuation.

    Aorist e|lu|sa|men Here, we have: past-time morpheme, lexical, aoristic


    ( ) (We loosed)
    aspect & Person-Number Suffix. We recognize 2
    particular things here: the past-time & aor. aspect which
    makes it: “We loosed.” No reference to specific time here.
    Perfect
    ( . ) (We have le|lu|ka|men Here, we have: geminated past-time morpheme, lexical,
    loosed) impf. aspect & Person-Number Suffix. We recognize 2
    particular things here: the geminated (doubled) past-time
    Note that the past-time morph. doubles the first consonant (l) of the & impf. aspect which makes it: “We have loosed”.
    word in the impf. and then adds the “e”. More on this later. Perfective aspect shows finality; it’s already done!

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