3 PRESENT AND FUTURE ACTIVE INDICATIVE Related patterns of verbs are known as conjugations (from Lat. coniugo, “I join together”). The entire Greek verb system may be divided into two basic conjugations: the -ω conjugation, and the -μι conjugation. These terms refer to the ending of the first person singular suffix in the present active indicative. The older but much smaller of the two systems is the -μι conjugation. The most common -μι verb is εἰμί (“I am”), used about 2,500 times in the Greek
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