Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Verbs of fearing can be used in three different ways: fear of a person or thing, fear of performing an action and fear of an event occurring. Fear of a person or thing is expressed using a verb of fearing (e.g. timeo) and a noun, either in the dative or the accusative. Mountford notes that there is no general rule on which case should be used ...
The subjunctive is used after verbs of fearing to express fears for the future, after a verb of fearing in the present tense. In this case the word μή (mḗ) "lest" is always added after the verb of fearing: [36] φοβεῖται μὴ πολιορκώμεθα. [37] phobeîtai mḕ poliorkṓmetha. He is afraid that we may be besieged.
In the following case, both verbs depend on an initial verb of fearing: sed vereor nē, dum minuere velim labōrem, augeam (Cicero) [9] 'but I am afraid in case, while I am trying to lessen the difficulty, I might end up by increasing it' In another group cited by grammars, the subordinate clause with a subjunctive verb depends on an infinitive ...
When the optative is used after a verb of fearing or caution, the negative particle μή (mḗ) "in case" or "lest" is added after the verb of fearing: [21] ἔδεισα μὴ πάθοιτέ τι. (Xenophon) [22] édeisa mḕ páthoité ti. (aorist optative). I was afraid in case you might suffer some (harm).
Fear the gods, and honour your parents. The aorist imperative is used when the speaker wishes something done at once: δότε μοι ξίφος ὅπως τάχιστα. [125] dóte moi xíphos hópōs tákhista. Give me a sword as quickly as possible! It is also possible in Greek to have a 3rd person imperative, as in the following examples:
In other kinds of indirect sentences (e.g. after verbs of command or fearing) the present or imperfect subjunctive are used with a future meaning. For the most part in subordinate clauses in ōrātiō oblīqua , the verb is in one of the four basic subjunctive tenses (present, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect); the periphrastic subjunctive is not ...
The subjunctive (also known as conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it.Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, obligation, or action that has not yet occurred; the precise situations in which they are used ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...