Principal Parts: Complete Index

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• είμαι (to be)A1 — The complete inventory of είμαι on one card — present, past, future, να-form and gerund — plus the unusually long list of forms this verb does not have: no aorist or perfective stem, no perfect, no separate mediopassive, no -μένος participle and no plain imperative.
• έχω (to have)A1 — The complete inventory of έχω on one card — present, the ει- past είχα, future, imperative and gerund — the slots it leaves empty (no aorist, no perfective stem, no perfect of itself, no passive), and the genuinely ambiguous έχω να construction.
• Suppletive Verbs (βλέπω→είδα)B1 — Six everyday verbs — βλέπω, λέω, τρώω, πάω, έρχομαι, παίρνω — carry two roots each, one for the present and a completely different one for everything perfective. This page puts each verb's present, aorist, να-form, command and perfect on a single card, shows which cells you actually have to memorise and which fall out of the others, and marks the two verbs where the chain breaks.
• The Two Verb StemsA2 — Aspect becomes visible through stem choice. Most productive verbs contrast an imperfective stem with a perfective stem—γράφω → γράψ-, αγαπώ → αγαπήσ-, παίζω → παίξ-—while one-stem and suppletive verbs require separate principal-part notes.