GreekPod101 Must-Know Greek Sentence Structures Curriculum
| Lesson | Description | Greek Pattern | English Pattern | Grammar point 1 | Grammar point 2 | Grammar point 3 |
| 1 | Talking about your profession | (Εγώ) είμαι… | I am a… | Strong form personal pronouns in the nominative | Auxiliary verb “to be” (είμαι, íme) | Profession nouns & articles |
| 2 | Describing someone’s emotions or feelings | (Εσύ) είσαι… | You are… | Adjective group: -ος, -η, -ο (-os, -i, -o) ending adjectives |
-μένος, -μένη, -μένο (-ménos, -méni, -méno) participles | Subject predicate |
| 3 | Describing something using an adjective or a declinable participle | Αυτός/-ή/-ό_ είναι… | That_ is… | Demonstrative pronouns | Noun phrase | |
| 4 | Comparing two similar things | τόσο… όσο… | as… as… | Adverbs: Introduction & the Adverbs τόσο (tóso, “as, that much”) and όσο (óso, “as, as much as”) | Noun groups: parisyllabic masculine -ας (-as) |
Adjective groups: -ος, -α, -ο (-os, -a, -o) and -ος, -ια, -ο (-os, -ia, -o) ending adjectives |
| 5 | Expressing what you want | (Εγώ) θέλω… | I want… | 1st conjugation verb “to want” (θέλω, thélo) - Present tense (active voice) | Transitive verbs (active voice) | Object |
| 6 | Talking about belongings | (Εσύ) έχεις… | You have… | Auxiliary verb “to have” (έχω, ého) | Numerals: Cardinal Numbers | |
| 7 | Asking about location or position | Πού…; | Where…? | Interrogative adverb πού (pu, “where”) | 1st conjugation verb “to be located” (βρίσκομαι, vrískome) and introduction to the passive voice | Noun group: Parisyllabic feminine -α (-a) ending nouns |
| 8 | Giving the location of something | Ο/η/το… είναι… | The… is… | Prepositions: Introduction & the preposition σε (se, “in/on/at/to/…”) | Common locative adverbs | Locative adverbs used with the preposition σε (se, “in/on/at/to/…”) |
| 9 | Stating that something exists in a location | Υπάρχει/Υπάρχουν… | There is… | The preposition από (apó, “from/since/by/of/…”) | Locative adverbs used with the preposition από (apó, “from/since/by/of/…”) | Noun group: Parisyllabic neuter -ι (-i) ending nouns |
| 10 | Asking for information about something | Τι…; | What…? | Interrogative pronoun τι (ti, “what”) | The preposition για (ya, “for/in order/to/about/…”) | Word order in Greek |
| 11 | Letting others know what someone is doing | (Εγώ)… | I am… | 2nd conjugation verbs - Present tense (active voice) | The preposition με (me, “with”) | Noun group: Parisyllabic feminine -η (-i) ending nouns with an -ες (-es) ending in the plural |
| 12 | Asking about someone or something | Ποιος/Ποια/Ποιο…; | Who…? | Interrogative pronouns ποιος, ποια, ποιο (pios, pia, pio, “who/which (one)/what”) | Noun groups: Parisyllabic masculine -ος (-os) ending nouns |
Noun groups: Parisyllabic masculine -ης (-is) ending nouns |
| 13 | Asking about a choice | Ποιον/Ποια(ν)/Ποιο…; | Which…? | Noun group: Parisyllabic neuter -ο (-o) ending nouns |
Noun group: Parisyllabic neuter -ος (-os) ending nouns |
Noun group: Archaic parisyllabic feminine -ος (-os) ending nouns |
| 14 | Asking about ownership |
Ποιανού/Ποιανής/Ποιανού είναι…;
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Whose…? | The vocative case | The predicate of a subject in genitive | Adjective group: -ής, -ιά, and -ί (-ís, -iá, -í) ending adjectives |
| 15 | Discussing one’s habits | (Εγώ)… κάθε… | I… every… | Indefinite pronouns καθένας (kathénas,) καθεμιά/καθεμία (kathemiá/kathemía,) καθένα (kathéna,) and κάθε (káthe) - “every (single) one,” “each,” and “every” | Past progressive tense (active voice) | Verb augmentation |
| 16 | Discussing likes | (Εμένα) μου αρέσει/-ουν… | I like… | Personal pronouns (strong & weak forms) and possessive pronouns (weak forms) | Verb “to like” (αρέσω, aréso) | Adverb πολύ (polí), “very/very much/a lot” |
| 17 | Talking about something in the past | (Εγώ) πήγα… | I went… | Introduction to the active voice aorist stem and aorist endings | Formation of the active voice aorist tense | Conjugation of active voice verbs in the aorist tense |
| 18 | Asking about time | Πότε…; | When…? | Interrogative adverb πότε (póte, “when”) | Common temporal adverbs | Simple future tense (active voice) |
| 19 | Expressing your ability to do something | (Εγώ) μπορώ να… | I can… | Adverbs ending in -α (-a) | Introduction to the subjunctive mood | Progressive subjunctive |
| 20 | Expressing that you want to do something | (Εγώ) θέλω να… | I want to… | Μomentary subjunctive | Reflexive pronouns | |
| 21 | Requesting someone to refrain from doing something | Μη(ν)… | Don’t… | Imperative | Politeness | |
| 22 | Seeking confirmation about a statement | …σωστά; | …right? | Tag questions | Present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tense | |
| 23 | Asking for a reason | Γιατί…; | Why…? | The word γιατί (yatí, “why/because”) | Conjunctions, ordinate, and subordinate clauses | 2nd conjugation verb “to be for sale” (πουλιέμαι, puliéme) - Passive voice, present stem forms |
| 24 | Explaining the cause or reason for an action or condition | … επειδή… | … because… | Degrees of adjectives | ||
| 25 | Explaining a conclusion or the result of an action | … οπότε… | … so… | The inferential conjunction οπότε (opóte, “so”) | 2nd conjugation verbs “to look after/to take care of” (περιποιούμαι, peripiúme,) and “to sleep” (κοιμάμαι, kimáme) - Passive voice, present stem forms | Degrees of adverbs |