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GREEK TO ENGLISH ALPHABET HOW TO

There is one vowel (or diphthong) per syllable.

It is essential that you master the process of syllabification, otherwise you will never be able to pronounce the words consistently, and you will have trouble memorizing them and communicating with your class mates.ġ. The second way is to learn some basic syllabification rules. I have read it for you on the online class on chapter 4. If you practice reading 1 John 1, included in the exercises of this chapter, syllabification should not be a problem. Therefore, if you "go with your feelings," you will syllabify Greek words almost automatically. The first is to recognize that Greek words syllabify in basically the same manner as English words do. This is called "syllabification," and there are two ways you can learn it. But in order to pronounce a Greek word you must be able to break it down into its syllables.

GREEK TO ENGLISH ALPHABET HOW TO

Just as it is important to learn how to pronounce the letters correctly, it is also important to pronounce the words correctly. However, just remember that accents were not part of the original text and are open to interpretation. We will point out these words and forms as we meet them. τίς can mean "who?" and τις can mean "someone." There are also a few verbal forms where knowing the accent is helpful. There are a few words that are identical except for their accents. Try pronouncing "κοι νο νι α" four times, each time accenting a different syllable. Imagine trying to memorize the word κοινονία if you could not decide which syllable to accent. If you do not force yourself to say a word the same way every time, vocabulary memorization becomes very difficult.

Consistently placing the stress on the accented syllable creates a desirable and necessary uniformity.

If all the students in the class accent any syllable they wish, it can become very difficult to talk to each other. Accents serve us very well in three areas. However, this does not mean that accents are worthless and should be ignored. Since the biblical manuscripts never had them originally, and since in our opinion they unnecessarily burden the beginning student, this text ignores the rules of accent placement). The question then becomes, when do you use which accent? Opinions vary from viewing the rules of accent placement as essential to being totally unnecessary. Notice how the shape of the accent gives a clue as to the direction of the pitch.

The circumflex accent shows that the voice rose and then dropped a little on the accented syllable (ἁγνῶς).

The grave accent shows that the voice originally dropped a little on the accented syllable (καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος).

The acute accent shows that the pitch originally went up a little on the accented syllable ( αἰτέω).

Most teachers are satisfied with students simply placing stress on the accented syllable. Luckily for us, while Greek accents were pitch, they are not that important. When they recognized that the accents were pitch and not stress, they were able to see the significance these accents played in that language and finally translated the Bible into that musically-minded language. The third brave couple started experiencing the same problems with the language as had the two previous couples until the wife, who had been a music major in college, recognized that the tribe had a very developed set of pitch accents that were essential in understanding the language. They had tried to learn their language, but could not. There is an interesting story about a cannibal tribe that killed the first two missionary couples who came to them. By the time of Koine Greek, the accent may have been stress. Most teachers allow their students to use a stress accent when pronouncing Greek because the music pitch accent is difficult. The voice rises or falls a little when the accented syllable is pronounced. But in Classical Greek, the accent originally was pitch, not stress. This means that when we come to the syllable that receives the accent, we put a little more stress on the pronunciation of that syllable. Eventually it became a stress accent as we have in English. Originally the accent was a pitch accent: the voice rose, dropped, or rose and dropped on the accented syllable. It is placed over a vowel and shows which syllable receives the accent. Almost every Greek word has an accent mark. This is similar to the English contraction (e.g., "can't").ģ. It is marked by an apostrophe, which is placed where the vowel was dropped (e.g., ἀπὸ ἐμοῦ becomes ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ). When a preposition ends with a vowel and the next word begins with a vowel, the final vowel of the first word drops out. This has already been explained earlier.Ģ.