Coptic School
Syllabus
Vision Welcome to the Coptic Grammar course! For many years, I have had a deep desire to learn ...
Resources
Coptic Textbooks/Curricula "Lessons to Simplify Coptic Grammar" by Moawad Daoud This link conta...
Unit 1: Nouns and Articles
Unit 1 Vocabulary
General Nouns Coptic English Gender Irregular Plural ⲕⲁϩⲓ earth/land M ⲫⲉ sky/heaven ...
Lesson 1: Indefinite Articles
Nouns A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing or idea. For example: Peter, bicycle, d...
Lesson 2: Definite Articles
Definite Articles Where indefinite articles denote a noun that is not specified, definite articl...
Lesson 3: Possessive Articles
Possessive Articles When assigning a possessive article to a noun, several things are taken into...
Lesson 4: Near Demonstrative Articles
Near Demonstrative Articles Demonstratives refer to the English "this" and "that." The demonstra...
Lesson 5: Indefinite Pronoun ⲕⲉ
Indefinite Pronouns An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that does not refer to any person, place,...
Unit 2: Pronouns
Unit 2 Vocabulary
General Vocabulary Coptic English Gender Irregular Plural ϩⲱⲃ thing M ϩ̀ⲃⲏⲟⲩⲓ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ eve...
Lesson 1: Near Demonstrative Pronouns
Near Demonstrative Pronoun Masculine (this) Feminine (this) Plural (these) ⲫⲁⲓ ⲑⲁⲓ ⲛⲁⲓ A p...
Lesson 2: Personal Pronouns
Personal Pronouns Pronouns take the place of a noun. We briefly introduced pronouns with the Dem...
Lesson 4: Indefinite Pronoun ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ
Indefinite Pronoun ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ Exercises Exercise 1: Translate to Coptic Translate the following int...
Lesson 5: Genitive
Genitive The Genitive is a preposition that is used to denote possession (i.e. when some noun or...
Unit 4: Nominal Sentences
Unit 4 Vocabulary
Numbers (1-10) Masculine Feminine English ⲁ̅ ⲟⲩⲁⲓ ⲟⲩⲓ One ⲃ̅ ̀ⲥⲛⲁⲩ ̀ⲥⲛⲟⲩϯ Two ⲅ̅ ϣ...
Lesson 1: Nominal Tripartite Sentences (Definite Predicate)
Sentences A sentence is a set of words that contains a subject (what the sentence is about) and ...
Lesson 2: Nominal Tripartite Sentences (Indefinite Predicate)
Indefinite Predicate Sentences There are two forms of nominal tripartite sentences when the obje...
Lesson 3: Nominal Bipartite Sentences
Nominal Bipartite Sentences In the previous lessons, we studied several forms of Nominal Tripart...
Lesson 4: Negative Nominal Sentence Construction
Indefinite Pronoun -ⲕⲉ- An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that does not refer to any person, pl...
Lesson 5: Relative Nominal Sentence Construction
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Lesson 6: Interrogatives
Interrogative Form Application Application 1: This is an excerpt from <>. Exercises ...
Unit 5: Prepositions
Unit 3: Adjectives
Unit 3 Vocabulary
Numbers (1-10) Masculine Feminine English ⲁ̅ ⲟⲩⲁⲓ ⲟⲩⲓ One ⲃ̅ ̀ⲥⲛⲁⲩ ̀ⲥⲛⲟⲩϯ Two ⲅ̅ ϣ...
Lesson 1: Attributive Construction
Attributive Construction See 3B lesson 2.4.i Examples: ⲇⲓⲁⲑⲏⲕⲏ ̀ⲙⲃⲉⲣⲓ New Testament ⲇⲓⲁⲑⲏⲕⲏ ...
Lesson 2: Compound Nouns (ⲙⲉⲧ-, ⲣⲉϥ-, ⲣⲉⲙ-)
Compound Nouns Nabil Matar p 488 ⲙⲉⲧ- ⲣⲉϥ- ⲣⲉⲙ- Examples: Exercises...
Lesson 3: Compound Nouns (ⲥⲁ, ⲙⲁ)
Compound Nouns Nabil Matar p 488, 441 ⲙⲁ ⲥⲁ Examples: Exercises Exercise ...
Lesson 4: Inflected Adjectives
Inflected Adjectives See 3B lesson after 2.4.iii Examples: Exercises Exercise...
Lesson 5: Qualitatives as Adjectives
Qualitative Nabil Matar p 447 Examples: Exercises Exercise 1: Translate to ...