Aorist (/ˈeɪərɪst/ AY-ər-ist; abbreviated AOR) verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite. Ancient Greek...

In the grammar of Ancient Greek, an aorist (pronounced /ˈeɪ.ərɪst/ or /ˈɛərɪst/) (from the Ancient Greek ἀόριστος aóristos - ‘undefined’) is a type of...

the indicative mood there are seven tenses: present, imperfect, future, aorist (the equivalent of past simple), perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect...

and imperfective are known as the perfect, aorist and present systems: Stative = Perfect Perfective = Aorist Imperfective = Present The present/imperfective...

e. Smyth, paragraph 1931: Gnomic Aorist (γνώμη maxim, proverb). – The aorist may express a general truth. The aorist simply states a past occurrence and...

forms, and the distinctions in meaning between the imperfect, perfect and aorist forms are barely maintained and ultimately lost. Verb conjugation in Sanskrit...

is spoken in the region of modern Sparta. Doric has also passed down its aorist terminations into most verbs of Demotic Greek. By about the 6th century...

repetitive action, notice that the verb is in an independent clause) Past aorist imperfective verb: Вчера четох една книга = "Yesterday, I read a book" (but...

that Leonidas would have used. The form ἔμολον is recorded in Doric as the aorist for εἷρπον, "to go, come". The classical pronunciation is [mo.lɔ᷆ːn la.bé]...

from the PIE aorist. In the Proto-Italic period, the root aorist of PIE was no longer productive. However, other PIE perfect and aorist stems continued...