Koine Greek Adjectives

fun/dry video kind of explaining how adjectives work in Koine Greek. Most is sarcastic, and is not helpful, but there is a little bit of learning in here. Wallace and Mounce textbooks were the basis. This was filmed at about 4am in the morning.

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Education

Tags:

• greek
• koine
• adjectives
• grammer
• johnson
• bible
• college
• intermediate

[bunnycatch3r]

Will the definite article before the substantial adjective follow the declension for the implied noun (glasses) or will it simply be generic?

[razerei]

i'm not sure what you mean by generic, since there's always a reason why a word is a certain declension and form. The definite article always follows what it's attached to. --The black (glasses)-- "the" would be the same declension as "black." (the ending might look different, but nonetheless it's the same because of rules and morphology)

i'm by no means a teacher of koine greek-- this was a project done for my 3rd semester of greek in college. I hope you get your questions answered!

[ddsharper]

This is what confuses people studying grammar. An attributive adjective functions as a noun. It is NOT a noun, it is an adjective.

[razerei]

yea, i know. the video is sarcastic. that paper i hold up isn't true, but it's ironic how all that works out.

[ddsharper]

What do you mean, it's ironic how it all works out? I don't understand.

[razerei]

the sentence "an attributive adjective is a noun," is not true... i just use it as an example to explain how each word in it operates. In the example, the word "adjective" is a noun, which is ironic... because, well... i think you can figure it out.

i don't know what else to say to explain it, other than maybe just look at 0:33

[JudgeJred1]

@bunnycatch3r Firstly, I am not sure what you mean by "implied" noun. Secondly, while there is such a category as "generic" article, this has to do with its use with substantives as opposed to that which is "ontologically" generic.

[victoriabagpiper]

It's all Greek to me.

[Plisdku]

The word "noun" in your example sentence is actually a predicate noun, not a predicate adjective.