LESSON X
The other Past Tenses
The imperfect, with the augment prefixed as the sign of the past, is as follows; from κόπτω—
| ἔκοπτ-ον, | -ες, | -ε, | I, thou, he was |  | cutting. |
| ἐκόπτ-ομεν, | -ετε, | -ον, | we, you, they were |
Pure verbs contract
| αον | into | ων |
| αες | ” | ας |
| αε | ” | α |
| άομεν | ” | ῶμεν |
| άετε | ” | ᾶτε |
| αον | ” | ων |
| as in— |
| | ἐτίμων | ἐτίμας | ἐτίμα |
| | ἐτιμῶμεν | ἐτιμᾶτε | ἐτίμων |
| εον | into | ουν |
| εες | ” | εις |
| εε | ” | ει |
| έομεν | ” | οῦμεν |
| έετε | ” | εῖτε |
| εον | ” | ουν |
| as in— |
| | ἐφίλουν | ἐφίλεις | ἐφίλει |
| | ἐφιλοῦμεν | ἐφιλεῖτε | ἐφίλουν |
The present perfect, or the immediately past perfect, in addition to the augment, reduplicates the initial consonant of the root, and its terminations are—