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GREEK BASIC COURSE Volume II Lessons 9-16 October 1962 DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER TABLE OF CONTENTS Lesson 9, Dialogues; Do you have a watch? What's Pages; 1-23 the time? What time does the lesson start? Hod? What time does the plane arrive? Leave? Structural Features; Idiomatic way of saying gt one o'clock,at two, three,etc, How many times a day? an hour? Aminute? (Feminine and neuter articles used exclusively), The objective case of the feminine article (singular and plural). Lesson 10. Dialogues; How many months hes the year? 2h HS (Names of months and jons of the Year enuserated). Counting from 101-1200, Structural Features; Numerals 200-1200 used in all three genders (counting by 100's). Idiomatic way of saying in winter, How_many tines a year? (vith masculine articles). Plural ending -EZ of maacul: nouns. Irregular masculine noun the year (nesculine singular, neuter plural), Tesson 11, Dielogues; army ranks. Are you an officer? 4972 ¥o,I am an ¥00,etc. Structural Features; Posseasive and objective cases of masculine nouns in -O2. Poss.and obj, cases of the masculine article (only in the singular), Lesson 12, Dialogus : army units, Where is the Capteia? 73-100 He's in Bq. He is on duty. & General commands a division. A captain commands a company,etc. Structural Features: Relative pronoun who, Which, that (not the declinable form). Objective case of feminine nouns and obj.case of the feminine article. Obj. case of masculine nouns in ~AZ. Correct use of Grroc. Lesson 13, Dialogues; Do you happen to know where Pages ; 101-128 the Greek Dpt.ist Yes,it's in that building, upstairs. Structural Features; Former first declension of masculine nouns and the duality of their endings in the plural, Objective case Plural of masculine nouns in Obj.case plural of the masculine article, Agreement of adjectizes with nouns of different case ndings Question: Whom do you want? t ete. Tesson 14, Dialogues: When does your children's school 129-160 open in September? It opens on September 3rd. How many holidays do we celebrate in America? When do they cone? Structural Features: Dates (the name of the month given in the possessive case). Pos case singular and plural of the masculine and neuter articles and of masc. and neuter nouns in and =0. Accent shift in poss.case of these masc. and neuter nouns when accented on the 3rd syllable from the end. Poss.case (sing. and plural) of masculine nouns in (with no accent shifts). Iesson 15, Dialogu Do all young men serve in the Army in 161-185 Greece? Yes,they do. At vbat age are they drafted? They are drafted at the age of 21, How old are they? Idiomatic way of asking a Structural first,second,etc. (up to twelfth). Contracted form of verb to go (in present tense only). 186-217 Objective case of the personal pronoun (long and short forms). Use of the objective case of the personal pronoun in connection with asking @ person's name. Verbs to love, ko count, to study,to ask, to gre 18, 19. 20, NINTH LESSON NATO MAGENA DULCE I ‘Translation. Do you have a watch, Mr... ? I do, What's the time, please? It's eight o'clock sharp, What time does the class start? ‘The class starts now, at eight, What time does the class end? The class ends at ton mimutes to nine. How many hours of classes do you have in the morning? ‘fe have three hours of classes in the morning. Do you go to the coffee shop in the morning? Yes, we go to the coffee shop at ten minutes bo tas, What time do you get back (return) to class? We get back at ten minutes past ten. Do you have a class at a quarter to twelve? Wo, at a quarter to twelve we don't have a class, What time dc classes start in the afternoon? Classes start at one in the afternoon. And what time are they over (do they finish)? They are over at four o'clock sharz, ca 10, ny 12, 13, 4, 15, 16. 17, 18. 19, 20. DIALOGUE I ATAAOTOE I "nyere por, xOpie.. 5 xévora, Exe. tt Tar, offs napanard; Hlvet Bore bapsBice TC Spa dpxtcer +6 péonna; TE p&enua &pxlter tépa ovls buré, TE pa rereréver x6 uéonua; 76 yhenua tederaver orc Ewes napt Séxa. TSaec pes ere whonna +6 xpwl; "Eyoue tpets Gpes pSenna 6 npwl. Tnyatvere ot6 nageveto +6 xpul; MéAvota, mnyatvoue o+6 xageveto ols béxa naph dExa. Te Boa weltere or6 phonua; Tupttope oré uhenua orls béxa xal béxa. “Exere phtnua otls Sbbexa xaph cErapto; “Oxi, orle S6bexa napé térapto bev Froue paonua. TC Boa kpxttovv té yxohuata 6 dnSyeuua; 76 paehuera Bpxttovy v6 &xbyeuna oth ula. Kat +C Spa tederévouv; TederGvovv orle réooepers dxpr pts. “oPar wet & le 2. 17. 18, 19 20. 21, 22. DIALOGUE IT ‘Translation Do you know how many hours the day bas? Yes, it has twenty four hours, How many minutes does the hour have? ‘The hour has sixty minutes. 4nd how many minutes does the half hour have? ‘The half hour has thirty minut How many quarters does the hour have? The hour has four quarters. How many seconds does a minute have? A mime (the minute) has sixty seconds. What time does the train leave for San Francisco? It leaves at ten mimates to eight in the morning, and at whet time does it get (arrive) there? Tt gets there at noon, What time does the plane leave for Chicago? Tt leaves at 5:30 or at 6 in the evening. I don't imov exactly, dnd at what time does it get to Chicago? It gets there at midnight. 4nd where are you at midnight? I'm ugually at home at midnight, Do you study (read) until midnight? Petes I study (read) three or four hours every 1 2. a. 4 5. 6 Tt 8. a. 10. ne 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 2. 22. DIALOGUE IT ‘ATAAOPOE IT BEpere nbces Les Exes 4 uépa; M&Avota, 4 wEpa Exer efxoor skovepets Toes. boa Aenté Exe. 4 Spa “H Gpa Exer Tetvea Tene, Kal x6oa Aenté Eyer 4 prof, Sea "H pio Spa Exes xpsdvea Aewté. Uboa térapta Exer 4 Spa; “H Gpa Exet téovepa tétapta. Tiéoa beutepbrenva Exe. 16 dexv6; 76 Ae|weé Exer defivea bevtepsdexta. TL Bpa gebyer x6 tpatve yuk 6 Thv Spavatoxo; Gebyer ors bur& naph efnoar v6 xput. Kat +t gekver ExeT; Solver fuet'e6 peomyc. TC Gp gebyer +6 kepomdévo 716 v6 Linky; gebves ovts neveduior forts 6 +6 ppbv, Sev tee pups. Kat vl Spa gdfver ot6 Linéyo; Mkver exet th peokvuxta. "Boats nod else cé peoévuxte; Elyat ovvhous ofS oxtet pov ré peotvxre. Avapatete Os +é peck 5 “ore, Shs Sapte soets A séooepers Upes xfde xre. PROSE TEXT KETMENO MiG bea or6 cxoheto 76 npwl &pxttouv t& wabfuara otls bur, Buus Eye amyatwe ors Envéuior nal pererd prof Spa. 76 put Exone tpets pes whonua, Erle béxa xapk béxa mnyatvope o+5 xa- geveto nal yupltoue orb whOqua orls déxa xal béxa, “H Spa Evbexa tererdver 16 phonua. 16 dn6yeupa 6 padfuata kpxltouv orf ula dnpipic. "Byoue nal +6 &nbyeuna tpete Gpec phonua. Itle téoveperc geGyoue &xb 6 cxodsto, "EyG gOGvw ot oxter pov orls tee Geperofuict. 0 x. ule g@dver or6 antes cov axle téooe- pers ual térapto., ‘0 brouuntfic wéver oté ypageto tov dc sls névre tls neveéuict. 16 BpGbu pederdpe ch padhparé pas yd tfv BAAN népa. "By brapérw duburor Spes, yrarl Srapétw prov Bea or oxodeto x6 xpwl. ‘0 xGpros X Srapdter tperofuror rEooepers Lipes. Tv Mapacneuf +6 Bott Buus bE SrapGtw. Unyatwe ov6 KappEa ul +6 abtoxtynt6 pou H ot6 Abs “Avttenes we <6 tpatvo, 23 (a) (b) (e) 2h (a) GRAMMAR ANALYSIS TPAMMATIKH fhe combination ETO ( in this, on the, to the, at the ) referred to in Lesson 2, #2b, becomes ETH or ETHN for feminine nouns in/the singular and ETIZ for feminine nouns in the plural. Examples: ‘0 padnsfis elvar The student is in the oth BupALofxn. library. “Bxw phonpa orf ute, I have a class at one, Bur Avapétoue oxls We read in the BLBALostixnes. librarie: “Zyw phonua orls tpets. I have a class at three. The feminine form of the numerals is used when we tell time because they refer to the word (hour), which is a feminine noun, ‘The combination 2TH = ETIZ is used when the time is pinpointed as it would be in English when making such statements, as at-one o'clock, at three olclock, and so on. Whenever a preposition is used ina question it is normally placed at the beginning of the question, Examples: nbces Spec mnyatves In how many hours does tpatvo ot6 Linéyo; the train go to Chicago? "As nod clase; Where are you from? Mé

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