The verb “have”
The verb “have” is one of the most useful ones in any language. In Greek, it is a regular verb. This means that there is a fixed pattern for forming its endings. In the table below, we’ve shown the ending for each pronoun in red.
| Singular | Plural | |||||||
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| First Person |        I have |
       we have |
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| Second Person |     you have |
 you have |
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| Third Person |
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Many Greek verbs fall into this same pattern for changing their endings (or conjugating.) We call this group of verbs the first conjugation verbs. Here are a few more of them, given, as always, in the first person form:
| English | Greek |
|---|---|
| see |     |
| buy |      |
| drink |  |
| know |  |
| take | |
| give |  |
Thus:
| I see. |   |
| She gives. |     |
| We buy. | |
Of course, now it’s time to practice...
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