Alright, this is pretty long because I wanted to see if I could
explain it decently, but I will say that it's not too hard, with
regular exposure, to get a passive knowledge of the Î¼Î¹-verbs
so that you'll be able to recognize what the forms are. But
anyway: 1. The basic division with Greek verbs is between the
thematic conjugation and the athematic conjugation, and roughly
speaking, in the former endings are added with an Î¿/Îµ
depending on the ending, and in the latter, endings are added
directly to the stem. So to try and summarize: The thematic
conjugations are the present in -Ï‰ and the aorist in -Î¿Î½.
Here you add -Î¿Î½Ï„- to get the participle, e.g. Î»ÏÏ‰ >
Î»ÏÏ‰Î½ and á¼”Î»Î¹Ï€Î¿Î½ > Î»Î¹Ï€ÏŽÎ½. Aorist verbs in -Î± are,
I guess, technically athematic, but they're different from the
rest, so you can treat them separately and just remember that
the participle has -Î±Î½Ï„-, e.g. á¼”Î»Ï…ÏƒÎ± > Î»ÏÏƒÎ±Ï‚. Those
are the simplest cases, and fortunately the most numerous.
Everything else is athematic (inclu