aorist

The aorist passive comes in two varieties, first and second.

The duration of the action that is expressed with the aorist can be long or short.

In the development of Latin, for example, the aorist merged with the perfect.

When the aorist does not determine time, it determines aspect instead.

It is either not known or not important (in contrast with past aorist).

The temporal participle is used with every tense and especially aorist.

All verbs from the first class of the second conjugation use only the past aorist.

The aorist and the imperfect are the standard tenses for telling a story.

Aorist rods were devices used in a now happily abandoned form of energy production.

There is disagreement as to which functions of the Greek aorist are inherent within it.

Part VI forms the aorist and future in the passive voice.

In addition to the present and the aorist, the following aspects are assumed:

The aorist indicative (but no other form) also has an augment added onto the beginning.

The past is expressed by aorist, imperfect, perfect and pluperfect.

Careful grammarians, of course, understand and explain that this does not mean the aorist could be used only for point actions.

Here the imperfect refers to a past habitual or repeated act, and the aorist to a single one.

There are separate passive-voice forms (distinct from the middle) only in the future and aorist.

The alternate forms in the plural are formed by analogy with the aorist.

In various grammars, this is called the preterite, the perfect, or sometimes the aorist.

Present and aorist are universally recognised, while some of the other aspects remain controversial.

The gnomic aorist expresses the way things generally happen, as in proverbs.

This example shows a genitive absolute with an aorist participle.

The aorist was also used with the ancient injunctive mood, particularly in prohibitions.

Besides this basic usage, the aorist also can be used to express:

The aorist participle may be used where the action is completed, called the perfective aspect.