Greek Perfect Indicative Active
2008 May 16
This post will cover the perfect indicative active and the perfect infinitive active. There are also perfect subjunctives and optatives, however they will have to be addressed in another post. The perfect tense has completed aspect and present time, equivalent to the English, ”I have done.”
The perfect indicative active is based on Principal Part 4, the 1st Person Singular Perfect Indicative Active. To form the perfect, take PP4 and remove the ending -α to form the perfect active tense stem. To this stem add the appropriate ending for the person and number (assuming tense, mood and voice for this post are fixed, of course). To form the infinitive, use the same stem and add the infinitive ending.
| Indicative | Translation | ||
| 1st Person Singular (1ps) | -α | I have done | |
| 2nd Person Singular (2ps) | -ας | you (s.) have done | |
| 3rd Person Singular (3ps) | -ε[ν] | he/she/it has done | |
| 1st Person Plural (1pp) | -αμεν | we have done | |
| 2nd Person Plural (2pp) | -ατε | you (p.) have done | |
| 3rd Person Plural (3pp) | -ᾱσι[ν] | they have done | |
| Infinitive | |||
| N/A | -έναι | to have done | |
