Mounce Chapter 6 Nominative and Accusative

In this chapter we will learn:

1. To identify whether a noun is first or second declension;

2. Two cases and their endings:

3. The nominative (used when the noun is the subject.)

4. The accusative (used when the noun is the direct object.)

5. The forms of the word "the" and how they "agree" with the noun they are modifying;

6. Two hinst for effective translation;

7. The first three of eight noun rules.

Lesson 6 pdf file by Dr Decker.

Eight Noun Rules

Memorize the first three for now.

1. Stems ending in a or h are in the first declension, stems ending in o are in the second, and consonantal stems are in the third. (pg 37)

2. Every neuter word has the same form in the nominative and accusitive.

3. Almost all neuter words end in a in the nominative and accusative plural.

4. In the sative singular, the iota subscripts if possible.(pg 50)

5. Vowles often change their length ("ablaut")

6. In the genitive and dative, the masculine and neuter will always be identical.

7. The square of stops

8. A tau cannot stand at the end of a word and will drop off.

Noun Endings must be memorized!  

This is best done by pronouncing a column, after memorizing the sequence of Nominative, Genative, Dative, Accusative Singular;    Nominative, Genative, Dative, Accusative Plural.  With these memorized you should be able to reconstruct the table below everywhere you go, even on your napkin at the kitchen table.  

MEMORIZE The Noun Endings

The 3 columns of these tables will represent:

2nd Declension Masculine Gender, 1st Declension Femine Gender, and 2nd Declension Neuter Gender.

Translation Procedure

When students start learning Greek, one of their most serious problems is that when they try to translate a sentence, it looks like a collection of unrealated words. As you learn more about this marvelous language, this problem becomes even more pronounced.

The keys to this problem are your case endings and the article. At this point, all you can do is find the subject and the direct object. It is helpful to split the sentence into its parts. Use the case ending you know to determine the parts.

It was most helpfull to me to consturct this simple English sentence to remember what NGDA is all about.

   The boy threw the pen of the girl to the friend.
Actualized in English
The Subject threw the Direct Object of the Possessive to the Indirect Object.
Actualized for Greek Students
The Nominative threw the Accusative of the Genative to the Dative

Notice here the use of THE article "THE." In Greek it will preceed every noun and have a form from the table below that makes it agree with THE noun in case and gender.  You will learn to love it.  (i.e. You will see "The Bill  threw the pen of the Jill to the Tom."  just so the article will tell the case and gender of the person or thing. )

Articles must be memorized!  

You must morize this Article Table!   When you memorized the noun ending table, you can mark the differences in the two and this one is easier to memorize.  

MEMORIZE The Articles

Vocabulary must be memorized To!  

Vocabulary

There are only 5,437 different Greek words in the entire NT.  They occur a total of 138,162 times.  But there are only 313 words that occur 50 times or more.  When you learn 319 Greek words you can read 79.92% of the total word count!  Contrast that with Spanish or French  where you must learn about 2,000 words to speak the language.  In a years study you can become proficient at reading your Greek NT. Take the time, a little bit EVERY day.   Vocabulary will be given in each lesson.  Memorize the Greek spelling, for now ignore the genative ending in the next column and the gender indicator in the next, memorize the English meaning, and (for some) the link to the pronounciation might work. 
 HELPFUL HINTS Mounce's disk has an excellent technique where he sings a little well known song and substitutes the vocab word in the lyric. (i.e. sing "Glory Glory Glory, Lord God Almighty" Starting with "Doxa, Doxa, Doxa" instead.)   Also associations, although often weird, help me to remember vocab very effectively (i.e. you find life at the ZOO-Ah, or my PHONO makes sounds)

Mounce Chapter 6 Vocabulary

(Word, Genative Ending, Gender, Definition)

Do Dr. Decker Lesson

Lesson pdf fileon Chap 6 by Dr.Decker

Take Closed Book Quiz 4 for Chapter 5-6 (Includes vocab, case endings and articles)

(This Quiz should be taken with a html editor then saved and emailed to your instructor.)

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