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The Ancient Greek nominative, like the Proto-Indo-European nominative, is used for the subject and for things describing the subject (predicate nouns or adjectives): Σωκράτης γὰρ σοφὸς ἦν καὶ δίκαιος. [1] Sōkrátēs gàr sophòs ên kaì díkaios. "For Socrates was wise and just."
It is used in the Gospel of John both with and without a predicate nominative. The seven occurrences with a predicate nominative that have resulted in some of the titles for Jesus are: I am the Bread of Life (John 6:35) I am the Light of the World (John 8:12) I am the Door (John 10:9) I am the Good Shepherd (John 10:11,14)
A special case is the word you: originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time, you has come to be used for the nominative as well. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominative–accusative languages, such as Latin, Greek and most modern Western European languages.
In Ancient Greek, when an adjective precedes a noun with an article, the copula is understood: ... For sentences with predicate nominatives, the copula ...
The Greek nominal system displays inflection for two numbers (singular and plural), three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), and four cases (nominative, genitive, accusative and vocative). As in many other Indo-European languages, the distribution of grammatical gender across nouns is largely arbitrary and need not coincide with natural ...
Ego eimi (Ancient Greek: ἐγώ εἰμι [eɡɔ̌ː eːmí]) "I am", "I exist", is the first person singular present active indicative of the verb "to be" in ancient Greek. The use of this phrase in some of the uses found in the Gospel of John is considered to have theological significance by many Christians.
Although the Greek gerundive resembles the Latin one, it is used far less frequently. Another way of expressing necessity in Greek is to use the impersonal verb δεῖ (deî) "it is necessary", followed by an accusative and infinitive: [46] δεῖ αὐτὸν ἀποθανεῖν. [47] deî autòn apothaneîn. It is necessary for him to die ...
On the other hand, dependency grammar rejects the binary subject-predicate division and places the finite verb as the root of the sentence. The matrix predicate is marked in blue, and its two arguments are in green. While the predicate cannot be construed as a constituent in the formal sense, it is a catena.