aorist

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But, after I conceptualized it languages like Ancient Greek -- although the aorist is still repulsive -- and Russian, which is intensely inflective, came pretty naturally.

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  1. noun A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek, that expresses action without indicating its completion or continuation.
  2. noun A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek or Sanskrit, that in the indicative mood expresses past action.

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  • An English translation cannot do without marking tense, but in Siwu, the poem does not contain any tense or aspect markers, being set in an aorist-like default that can be interpreted as recent past or present.
  • But since "they shall never perish" is a Greek Construction (ou me plus aorist subjunctive) is may be translated more explicitly "and they shall certainly not perish forever" (Grudem, ST, 789). —  Triablogue
  • The chapter on Greek grammar fallacies (for example the the aorist tense "always" carries a particular meaning in relation to time) is obviously not for the amateur, but even being a laymen I found it to be incredibly useful. —  Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
  • - Grammar, (tense) signifying happening in unrestricted or unspecified past. aoristic, adj. indefinite; pertaining to aorist. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The Greek word translated as katanoēsate (κατανοήσατε), the aorist imperative plural form of —  Language Log
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  1. From Greek aoristos, indefinite, aorist tense : a-, not; see a-1 + horistos, definable (from horizein, to define; see horizon).

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  1. from Greek ἀόριστος (sc. χρόνος, time, tense), the aorist tense, from ἀόριστος, indefinite, unbounded, from ἀ- privative + όριστο/ς, definable, verbal adjective of ὁρίζειν, bound, define: see horizon.
 

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