Ἀδύνατον | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

Unable, powerless; lacking the capacity or means to do something, hence “impossible” (of actions or events). Also used of persons or things as “weak, incapable.”

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Grammatical Analysis

"Ἀδύνατον"

Lemma: ἀδύνατος

Case: nominative (or accusative)

Number: singular

Gender: neuter

Degree: positive

Declension: 1st/2nd declension adjective (two-termination type: -ος, -ον)

Notes: Neuter singular form ἀδύνατον can function substantively (‘an impossibility’, ‘the impossible’) or predicatively; without context, nominative vs accusative cannot be distinguished.

Related Forms of ἀδύνατος

6 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

Adynatos nominative or vocative, singular, masculine or fem... αδύνατος nominative, singular, masculine or feminine αδυνατα nominative_or_accusative_or_vocative, plural, neut... Αδυνάτους accusative OR genitive, plural, masculine OR femin... ἀδύνατον nominative or accusative, singular, neuter ἀδύνατος nominative, singular, masculine/feminine

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