Personal endings of the active imperative.
Aorist imperative attic.
Ancient greek grammar had the aorist form and the grammars of other indo european languages and languages influenced by the indo european grammatical tradition such as middle persian sanskrit armenian the south slavic languages and georgian also.
For the distinction of time between the present and aorist see 313.
Abbreviated aor verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events similar to a preterite.
In traditional grammatical terminology the aorist is a tense a section of the verb paradigm formed with the same stem across all moods by contrast in theoretical linguistics tense refers to a form that specifies a point in time past present or future so the aorist is a tense aspect combination.
Change from the aorist tense to the present and imperfect tenses in the same person and number.
The tenses occurring in the imperative are the present aorist and perfect but only a few perfect active forms occur and these are rare.
Aorist ˈ eɪ ə r ɪ s t.
Of αἰρῶ αἰρέω choose.
Here chose translates an aorist middle form 2nd aor.
The imperative is used to express a command exhortation or an entreaty.
Notice that the plural forms of the aorist active indicative of γινώσκω use a second aorist stem but first aorist endings.
The presence of ὑμᾶς you functioning as the direct object means this clause cannot be reflexive.
The literary greek of athens in the fifth and fourth centuries bc attic.
