Old Church Slavonic Online

Lessons

0. Introduction to Old Church Slavonic
1. Luke 12:16-21
2. Matthew 14:1-12
3. Matthew 20:30-34
4. John 11:1-23
5. Matthew 4:1-5
6. Matthew 5:1-13
7. Luke 2:1-20
8. from the Suffering of the 40 Martyrs
9. from the Life of Good King Wencelaus
10. from the Life of Constantine
11. Selected Annotated Bibliography

Grammar Points

• 1. The Alphabet.
• 2. The Sound System.
• 3. Noun Inflection and the Twofold Nominal Declension.
•     3.1. o, jo-Stem Nouns.
•     3.2. a, ja-Stem Nouns.
• 4. Verb Inflection.
•     4.1. Present Tense.
•     4.2. Imperfect Tense.
• 5. Word Order.
• 6. Palatalization and Reduced Vowels.
•     6.1. Palatalization of Velars.
•     6.2. Softening Chart.
• 7. Reduced Vowels.
•     7.1. Strong and Weak Jers.
•     7.2. Tense Jers.
• 8. Personal Pronouns.
•     8.1. First and Second Person Pronouns.
•     8.2. Reflexive Pronoun.
•     8.3. Third Person Pronoun.
• 9. The Present System of Verbs.
• 10. Conjunctions and Particles.
• 11. i-Stem and u-Stem Nouns.
•     11.1. i-Stem Nouns.
•     11.2. u-Stem Nouns.
• 12. o- and a-Stem Adjectives.
• 13. Pronominal Declension.
• 14. The Aorist System.
•     14.1. Asigmatic Aorist.
•     14.2. Sigmatic Aorist.
•     14.3. New Aorist.
• 15. Genitive Objects and Negation.
• 16. Consonant Stem Nouns.
•     16.1. v-Stem Nouns.
•     16.2. n-Stem Nouns.
• 17. Compound Forms of Adjectives.
• 18. The l-Participle.
• 19. Prefixes and Prepostitions.
• 20. Adjectives.
• 21. Further Consonant Stem Nouns.
•     21.1. s-Stem Nouns.
•     21.2. nt-Stem Nouns.
•     21.3. r-Stem Nouns.
• 22. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives.
•     22.1. Short Form of the Comparative.
•     22.2. Long Form of the Comparative.
•     22.3. Comparatives without Positive Bases.
•     22.4. The Superlative.
• 23. Relatives, Interrogatives, and Indefinites.
•     23.1. The Relative Pronoun.
•     23.2. The Interrogative Pronoun and Adjective.
•     23.3. Indefinite Pronouns and Adjectives.
• 24. Compound Tense Formation.
•     24.1. The Perfect.
•     24.2. The Pluperfect.
•     24.3. The Future.
•     24.4. The Future Perfect.
• 25. The Nominative and Vocative Cases.
• 26. The Present Active Participle.
• 27. The Conditional of бꙑти and the Conditional-Optative Mood.
• 28. The First Conjugation.
• 29. The Accusative Case.
• 30. Participles.
• 31. Past Participles.
•     31.1. Past Participle Active.
•     31.2. Past Participle Passive.
• 32. Present Participle Passive.
• 33. Second Conjugation.
• 34. Genitive Case.
• 35. Passive Voice, sę, and Reflexive Verbs.
•     35.1. Passive Voice.
•     35.2. sę and Reflexive Verbs.
• 36. The Verbal Noun.
• 37. The Third Conjugation.
• 38. The Locative Case.
• 39. The Dative Case.
•     39.1. The Dative with Infinitive.
•     39.2. The Dative Absolute.
• 40. Negation.
• 41. The Fourth Conjugation.
• 42. The Conjugation of хотѣти.
• 43. The Instrumental Case.
• 44. Numerals.
• 45. Verb Use.
•     45.1. The Present Tense.
•     45.2. The Future Tense.
• 46. Invariable Verbal Forms.
•     46.1. The Infinitive and Supine.
•     46.2. The Gerund.
•     46.3. The Verbal Form sętŭ.
• 47. The Fifth Conjugation.
• 48. 'Have' and 'Take' Verbs.
• 49. Verb Use.
•     49.1. The Aorist.
•     49.2. The Imperfect.
• 50. Verbal Aspect.
•     50.1. Aspect Morphology.
•     50.2. Further Refinements.