HUD002


 * Ὀδύσσευς ἐστὶν ἀνήρ. **

//Odusseus estin aner.media type="file" key="Od 002.mp3" width="240" height="20"


 * "**//**Odysseus is a man" you hear in your earpiece.**


 * Ὀδύσσευς //Odusseus// media type="file" key="Odusseus.mp3" width="240" height="20" a name. Because it is the subject of this sentence, its form is what's called the " nominative case ." If it were doing something else, like being the object of a verb--that is, being acted upon--it would have a different ending, like ** Ὀδύσσηα.


 * ἐστὶν //estin// media type="file" key="estin.mp3" width="240" height="20" a verb. Because the action ("is") is described from the outside (that is, neither the speaker (I) nor the addressee (you) are is involved, its form is what's called " 3rd person ."

**** ἀνήρ media type="file" key="aner.mp3" width="240" height="20" a noun. Because it describes the subject, **** Ὀδύσσευς, it's also in the nominative case. If the man were being acted upon, the word would have a different form, whose name you'll learn later, but which you probably can already recognize, ἀνδρά.

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