/lit/ - Literature

>>23355309
>gender
To the extent that it is actually useful for understanding, this is acquired through mass-input
>principal parts
Completely unnecessary, no Greek, or even a random Thracian who had ever learned Greek as a second language, had ever heard of the concept of a principal part. It is purely an abstraction used to aid understanding and should not become an autistic obsession; there is no point to being able to recite all of them or whatever, you can do all that for 500 verbs and still not be able to read worth jack, or vice versa.
Note that I'm saying this after having bothered myself excessively over the damned things in the past. All that is truly useful is knowing the general patterns that form different tenses (like reduplication for perfects, recognizing the θην endings for aorist passives and so on).
For Sanskrit it is worth gaming the grammar more precisely because it is far more regular. For Greek this is like driving a sharp piece of wood under your nails.
Do note (2) that I'd recommend doing this after having gotten the basic grammar, like having done a textbook or something, but even there don't beat yourself up over it.
Just read, read a lot, and reading a lot is mainly done by making sure you enjoy reading a lot, which is done by not using the dictionary every second word or meticulously back-conjugating every irregular aorist.

>>23345749
does this mean if one is attracted to a child that looks like an adult is NOT a pedophile?