ἐπαύομεν
Ancient Greek edit
Attic Dialect
Verb edit
ἐπαύομεν • (epaúomen)
- first-person plural imperfect active indicative of παύω (paúō)
Example: We were stopping.
Usage notes edit
- The imperfect can have a repeated aspect, so alternate translations such as "We stopped (repeatedly)" are valid.
- Add a past indicative augment to the beginning of the first principal part to indicate the past timing of the imperfect tense.
- The past indicative augment is usually an epsilon with no rough breathing mark ([1]) or in the case that there is already a vowel at the beginning of the first principle part, that vowel is lengthened according to the following paradigm.
- So the augmented first principle part of παύω is επαύ- and the augmented first principle part of ἄρχω is ἤρχ-
References edit
Keller, Andrew, and Stephanie Russell. Learn to Read Greek / Andrew Keller, Stephanie Russell. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.