====== Greek Verbs ======


Greek has three main general tenses: __**Present, Past, and Future**__, each of which has its own subdivisions.

In the **Present** tense, you have the Present: action contemporary with the present.

**Present**: “I am sacrificing the goats… right now.”

In the Past tenses, there are four to choose from: Perfect, Pluperfect, Aorist, and Imperfect.

The **Aorist** is the simplest: “I sacrificed the goats… at some point.”
The **Perfect** is slightly more confusing, showing an action which was completed already in the past which you are still near: “I have sacrificed the goats. Now what?”
The **Pluperfect** is the past of the Perfect, a completed action in the past removed from you: “I had sacrificed the goats… and then I ate a sandwich, and went to the agora, and went to war, and came back, and here I am.”
The **Imperfect** is in the past, but may not have been completed yet: “I was sacrificing the goats… but then I got distracted.

And sometimes you have to deal with the Future Perfect, which is fairly confusing, but which you summed up fairly well in your ask. It is an action anticipated to be completed in the future. Thus, it is projecting the future into the past.

The **Future Perfect**: “I will have sacrificed the goats… by the time you finish those errands.”

In the **Future**, of course, you have the Future tense, denoting an action yet to come:

**Future**: “I will sacrifice the goats.”