My love/hate relationship with Greek.

I am taking a brief break from my Greek readings to share with you all why many people can both love and hate Greek by means of the following illustration:

Take the word ἀχθείς. You are supposed to be able to glean 7 pieces of information from those 6 letters.

1. The first two letters (ἀχ-) indicate that it is from the verb ἄγω.

2. The third letter (θ) indicates that it is the aorist tense and in the passive voice.

3. The first letter (ἀ) and the last three letters (-εις) indicate that it is a participle.

4. The last three letters also indicate that it is masculine, nominative, and singular. 

In sum, this word is the aorist, passive, participle, masculine, nominative, singular of the verb ἄγω. 

Happy Greek-ing everyone!

(Disclaimer: If my first sentence sounds awkward, it may be due to a course I'm taking called Greek prose composition. It'll do that to you.)