Over the last year, one of my main goals has been to develop the ability to speak Koine Era Greek. As a part of this goal, I wanted to be able to discuss the Greek Language and its grammar in Greek, without having to return to English when I do so. This is a skill that is still very much in development, but there is something I wanted to share now, because I believe it may be useful to others.

As I have been engaging more and more in Living Language oriented Greek materials, I have been putting together a Cheat Sheet of Greek Grammatical terms and phrases. These come from many sources that I highly recommend (I’ll share some of those below), but I wanted to have a quick spot to look these up without having to hunt. The longer you have to hunt to find what you are trying to say, the harder it is to stay in your second language.

I am attaching a PDF copy of my cheat sheet, which I hope will help you if you are pushing into speaking Koine Greek as a living language. As I update this, which is fairly often (as you can see I’m already on v5), I will add the new versions to this page. I am adding the sources from which I got this information to the bottom of this page, and to the Cheat Sheet itself.

If you think there is something I should add or if you have any corrections, comment below. Thanks!

References

Halcomb, T. M. W. (2016). A handbook of ancient Greek grammatical terms: Greek-English and English-Greek (Accessible Greek Resources & Online Studies). GlossaHouse.

Rico, C. (2015). Speaking ancient Greek as a living language. The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities.

Long, F. J. (2015). Koine Greek grammar: A beginning-intermediate exegetical and pragmatic handbook. GlossaHouse.