Indicative Mood Verbs

Active Voice: Subject Performs the action of the verb

Present Tense:

* Action in present time

* “I walk to class. Or I am walking to class.”

Future Tense:

* Action in future time

* “I will walk to class.”

* Tense Indicator: sigma infix

* Note: Some stems will change spelling when the sigma infix (σ) is added

Imperfect Tense:

* Ongoing Action in past time

* “I was walking to class.”

* Tense Indicator: epsilon (ε) prefix

* Note: Some vowels will be lengthened when the epsilon (ε) prefix is added

* Words beginning with epsilon (ε) and alpha (α) will lengthen to eta (η)

* Words beginning with omicron (ο) will lengthen to omega (ω)

Aorist Tense:

* Completed Action in past time

* “I walked to class.”

* Tense Indicator: sigma (σ) infix & epsilon (ε) prefix

* Note: Some spellings will change with sigma (σ) infix & epsilon (ε) prefix.

Perfect Tense:

* Action in past with continuing consequences

* “I have walked to class.”

* Tense Indicator: stem duplication

Pluperfect Tense:

* Action in past with continuing consequences in the past

* “I have walked to class.”

* Tense Indicators: stem duplication, kappa infix (κ), epsilon (ε) prefix

* Note: Some spellings will change with the epsilon (ε) prefix as above.

Theta eta (θη) is the characteristic infix of the passive voice.