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Vision Welcome to the Coptic Grammar course! For many years, I have had a deep desire to learn the Coptic Language. I want to speak Coptic. I want to understand the depth of the beauty of the hymns of our Church. I want to be able to read the Scripture in th...

Coptic Textbooks/Curricula "Lessons to Simplify Coptic Grammar" by Moawad Daoud This link contains the first 24 chapters and is obtained from http://copticplace.com:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/ywrpp08jprrn6zr/Full%20Book.pdf?dl=0  Chapters 25-32 scanned...

General Nouns Coptic English Gender Irregular Plural ⲕⲁϩⲓ earth/land M ⲫⲉ sky/heaven F ⲫⲏⲟⲩⲓ ⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ day M ⲉϫⲱⲣϩ night M ⲣⲁⲛ name M People Nouns Coptic English Gender Irregular Plural ⲣⲱ...

Nouns A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing or idea. For example: Peter, bicycle, dog, Alexandria, and truth are all nouns. Coptic nouns are classified by number and gender. Number: They can be singular (s.) or plural (pl.) like in English. Cont...

Definite Articles Where indefinite articles denote a noun that is not specified, definite articles denote a specified noun. For example, when we talk of "the book," we are referring to a specific book. English has only one definite article - "the" - which is ...

Possessive Articles When assigning a possessive article to a noun, several things are taken into account: The perspective, gender, and number of the subject (i.e. the possessor) The gender and number of the object (i.e. the possessed) Masculine O...

Near Demonstrative Articles Demonstratives refer to the English "this" and "that." The demonstrative "this" is called the near demonstrative since it refers to objects that are nearby (e.g. "this book") whereas "that" is called the far demonstrative since it ...

Indefinite Pronouns An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that does not refer to any person, place, or thing in particular. Some examples of indefinite pronouns in English are: "anything" - "something" - "anyone" - "anywhere" - "someone" - "somewhere" - etc. In...

Near Demonstrative Pronoun Masculine (this) Feminine (this) Plural (these) ⲫⲁⲓ ⲑⲁⲓ ⲛⲁⲓ A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. For example, instead of saying "the man" we may say "him." Or instead of saying "the big brown cha...

Personal Pronouns Pronouns take the place of a noun. We briefly introduced pronouns with the Demonstrative Pronouns in a previous lesson. In this lesson, we will examine the Personal Pronouns (i.e. pronouns that describe or take the place of a person). ...

General Vocabulary Coptic English Gender Irregular Plural ϩⲱⲃ thing M ϩ̀ⲃⲏⲟⲩⲓ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ every M/F Adjectives Coptic English Gender Irregular Plural ⲃⲉⲣⲓ new ⲁⲡⲁⲥ old ⲛⲓϣϯ great ⲕⲟⲩϫⲓ s...

Indefinite Pronoun ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ Exercises Exercise 1: Translate to Coptic Translate the following into Coptic: Exercise 2: Translate to English Translate the following phrases into English: Resources "A Study in Bohairic Coptic" by Nabil Matar; p33...

Genitive The Genitive is a preposition that is used to denote possession (i.e. when some noun or pronoun belongs to some other noun or pronoun). In Coptic, the Genitive can be denoted by one of the articles ̀ⲙ or ̀ⲛ, or the preposition ̀ⲛⲧⲉ. Articles ̀ⲙ and ...

Attributive Construction See 3B lesson 2.4.i Examples: ⲇⲓⲁⲑⲏⲕⲏ ̀ⲙⲃⲉⲣⲓ New Testament ⲇⲓⲁⲑⲏⲕⲏ ̀ⲛⲁⲡⲁⲥ Old Testament ϯϣⲟⲩⲣⲏ ̀ⲛⲛⲟⲩⲃ The golden censer (the censer of gold) Exercises Exercise 1: Translate to Coptic Translate the...

Compound Nouns Nabil Matar p 488 ⲙⲉⲧ- ⲣⲉϥ- ⲣⲉⲙ- Examples:             Exercises Exercise 1: Translate to Coptic Translate the following into Coptic: Exercise 2: Translate to English Translate the following ph...

Compound Nouns Nabil Matar p 488, 441 ⲙⲁ ⲥⲁ Examples: Exercises Exercise 1: Translate to Coptic Translate the following into Coptic: Exercise 2: Translate to English Translate the following phrases into ...

Inflected Adjectives See 3B lesson after 2.4.iii Examples: Exercises Exercise 1: Translate to Coptic Translate the following into Coptic: Exercise 2: Translate to English Translate the following phrases into...