Mastering New Testament Greek Textbook Ted Hildebrandt Baker Academic

You will be able to—

2. learn and translate various Greek adjectives;

3. identify attributive, predicate, and substantive uses of Greek adjectives;

4. properly identify the grammatical agreement between an adjective and its accompanying substantive;

5. identify the various forms of the verb ei]mi< in the present active indicative;

6. master ten more high-frequency vocabulary words; and

7. finish memorizing Jn. 1:1 in Greek.

Definition

Answers: What kind of snow? Soft.

The snow was soft.

Three Uses of Adjectives

2. A predicate adjective assigns a characteristic to the subject of the sentence.

3. As a substantive, an adjective acts independently, as a noun itself.

1. Attributive use:

The red car hit the big truck behind the rear tire.

2. Predicate use:

Roses are red and violets are blue.

3. Substantive use:

The kind receive their rewards, but the unjust are often surprised (i.e., the kind person; the unjust person).
Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns. They will match the nouns they modify in number, gender, and case.

Adjectives frequently use a 2-1-2 paradigm scheme:

Because you already know the first and second declensions, it is easy to recognize the gender, number, and case of the adjectives.