{"id":798,"date":"2006-08-09T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/?p=798"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:12:59","slug":"new-testament-greek-parsing-quiz-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/new-testament-greek-parsing-quiz-221\/","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Greek Parsing Quiz 221"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"ntgq-quiz-data\" data-quiz-number=\"221\" data-series-label=\"New Testament Greek Parsing Quiz\" data-title=\"Parsing Contract Verbs, Aorist Participles, Perfect Forms, and Imperatives\" data-intro=\"Practice parsing authentic Koine Greek forms by observing stems, endings, tense markers, and grammatical structure.\" data-level=\"intermediate\" data-hero-intro=\"This quiz focuses on the morphology of common New Testament Greek forms from the vocabulary list. Students will work with imperatives, infinitives, participles, subjunctives, nouns, adjectives, and perfect indicatives. The emphasis is on recognizing the grammatical signals that appear inside the form itself, including contract endings, aorist tense markers, participial endings, and perfect reduplication.\" data-box-intro=\"The forms in this quiz illustrate many of the principal morphological patterns encountered in New Testament Greek. Students will practise distinguishing active, middle, and passive voices; recognising present, aorist, future, and perfect tense systems; identifying participles and infinitives; and analysing nouns and adjectives by case, number, and gender. Special attention should be given to first and second aorists, contract verbs, perfect reduplication, passive formations, and the personal endings that distinguish finite verbal forms. Careful observation of these recurring patterns develops the grammatical awareness needed for accurate parsing and increasingly fluent reading of the Greek New Testament.\">\n  <script class=\"ntgq-question-data\" type=\"application\/json\">\n[\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Present Active Form\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Present active imperative, second person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 (to ask)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Present active indicative, second person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Present middle\/passive imperative, second person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active imperative, second person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 means \\\"to ask\\\" or \\\"to request.\\\" The ending -\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5 belongs to a contracted -\u03ad\u03c9 verb and may serve as either present active imperative or present active indicative, second person plural. In a parsing quiz without context, the imperative is accepted here because \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5 commonly functions as a command. It is not middle\/passive, since the ending would be -\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5. It is not aorist because no aorist marker such as -\u03c3\u03b1- appears.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Aorist Infinitive\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active infinitive of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 (to ask)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Present active infinitive of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist middle infinitive of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Future active infinitive of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 means \\\"to ask.\\\" The -\u1fc6\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 ending reflects the first aorist active infinitive of a contract verb, with the aorist -\u03c3\u03b1- compressed into the contracted form. A present infinitive would be \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd. The middle infinitive would use -\u03c3\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9, and the future active infinitive would not be identified by this aorist infinitive ending.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Aorist Participle\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 (to ask)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Present active participle, nominative masculine singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist middle participle, nominative masculine singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active indicative, second person singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 means \\\"to ask.\\\" The participial ending -\u03b1\u03c2, attached to the aorist stem \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3-, marks an aorist active participle in the nominative masculine singular. A present active participle would use a present-stem form such as \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd. The middle participle would have -\u03c3\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2. It is not a finite indicative because the participial ending gives an adjective-like verbal form.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Aorist Active Subjunctive\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u1fc3<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active subjunctive, third person singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 (to ask)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist middle subjunctive, third person singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Future middle indicative, second person singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Present middle subjunctive, third person singular of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 means \\\"to ask.\\\" The aorist stem \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3- is followed by the active subjunctive ending -\u1fc3, which identifies the third person singular active subjunctive. This spelling is also shared by the second person singular aorist middle subjunctive and the second person singular future middle indicative, so context is required to distinguish those possibilities. It cannot be the third person singular middle subjunctive because that form would end -\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 (\u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9).\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Aorist Middle Subjunctive\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist middle subjunctive, third person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 (to ask)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Future middle indicative, third person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active subjunctive, third person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Present middle subjunctive, third person plural of \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03ad\u03c9 means \\\"to ask.\\\" The ending -\u03c9\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 is the third person plural middle\/passive subjunctive ending, and the stem \u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3- points to the aorist system. A future middle indicative would use -\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9, not -\u03c9\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9. The active subjunctive would use -\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd. A present middle subjunctive would lack the aorist -\u03c3-.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Aorist Active Participle\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u1f00\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03ac\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural of \u1f00\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9 (to dishonor)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Present active participle, nominative masculine plural of \u1f00\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist middle participle, nominative masculine plural of \u1f00\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active indicative, third person plural of \u1f00\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u1f00\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9 means \\\"to dishonor.\\\" The sequence -\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 marks an aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural. A present participle would be built on the present stem and would not contain -\u03c3\u03b1-. The middle participle would use -\u03c3\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9. The ending is participial, not the third plural indicative ending -\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Adjective Case Form\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u1f00\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Accusative masculine plural adjective of \u1f00\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (uncondemned)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Nominative masculine plural adjective of \u1f00\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Genitive masculine singular adjective of \u1f00\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Accusative neuter plural adjective of \u1f00\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical adjective \u1f00\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 means \\\"uncondemned.\\\" The ending -\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 identifies the accusative masculine plural in this second-declension adjective pattern. A nominative masculine plural would end in -\u03bf\u03b9. A genitive singular would use -\u03bf\u03c5. Accusative neuter plural would end in -\u03b1, so the visible ending rules that out.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Perfect Active Indicative\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u1f00\u03ba\u03b7\u03ba\u03cc\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Perfect active indicative, first person plural of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c9 (to hear)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active indicative, first person plural of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Present active indicative, first person plural of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Perfect middle\/passive indicative, first person plural of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c9 means \\\"to hear.\\\" The reduplicated perfect stem \u1f00\u03ba\u03b7\u03ba\u03bf- identifies the perfect system, and -\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd marks first person plural active indicative. An aorist form would not use this perfect reduplication. A present form would be built on \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5-. The middle\/passive perfect would use different endings, not the active -\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Noun Case Form\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u1f70\u03c2<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Accusative feminine plural noun of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03ae (hearing, report)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Genitive feminine singular noun of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03ae\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Nominative feminine plural noun of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03ae\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Accusative feminine singular noun of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03ae\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical noun \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03ae means \\\"hearing\\\" or \\\"report.\\\" The ending -\u03ac\u03c2 marks accusative feminine plural in this first-declension noun. Genitive singular would be -\u1fc6\u03c2. Nominative plural would be -\u03b1\u03af. Accusative singular would end in -\u03ae\u03bd or -\u03ac\u03bd depending on the noun pattern, not -\u03ac\u03c2.\"\n  },\n  {\n    \"topic\":\"Present Active Imperative\",\n    \"question\":\"Parse <span class=\\\"ntgq-greek\\\">\u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b8\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03c9<\/span>.\",\n    \"answers\":[\n      {\"text\":\"Present active imperative, third person singular of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b8\u03ad\u03c9 (to follow)\",\"correct\":true},\n      {\"text\":\"Present active indicative, third person singular of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b8\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Aorist active imperative, third person singular of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b8\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false},\n      {\"text\":\"Present middle\/passive imperative, third person singular of \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b8\u03ad\u03c9\",\"correct\":false}\n    ],\n    \"explanation\":\"The lexical verb \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b8\u03ad\u03c9 means \\\"to follow.\\\" The ending -\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03c9 is the contracted present active imperative, third person singular, from an -\u03ad\u03c9 verb. The indicative third singular would be \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b8\u03b5\u1fd6, without -\u03c4\u03c9. An aorist imperative would be built on the aorist stem and would not use this present contract form. The middle\/passive imperative would use a different voice ending.\"\n  }\n]\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quiz continues the parsing sequence with forms that train students to recognize how Koine Greek verbs and nouns mark grammatical meaning through endings, stems, and tense patterns. The questions emphasize present imperatives and indicatives, aorist infinitives, aorist participles, subjunctive forms, perfect active indicatives, accusative plural adjectives, plural nouns, and third person imperatives. Students will practice distinguishing forms that look deceptively similar, especially where contract verbs, aorist tense formatives, participial endings, and subjunctive endings can easily be confused. The goal is to strengthen New Testament Greek reading fluency by making students observe the actual morphology of the word before choosing an answer. Each explanation gives the lexical meaning, points out the grammatical evidence in the form, and explains why nearby alternatives fail. This approach helps learners move beyond recognition by habit and toward accurate parsing based on visible Greek morphology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"quiz-template","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parsing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newtestamentgreek.org\/quiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}