Reddit reviews New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek (BCP Advanced Greek & Latin Language)

Here's a quick refresher for you!

>ποϊετε


Even if the diaeresis were a circumflex, it would still fall in the wrong place. Remember that:

1. a circumflex can never fall on the antepenult
   
   
   
2. in the present system, a contract verb like ποιέω must add the thematic ending -ετε onto a stem ending with a vowel, which then contracts (in attic Greek anyway), so our 'formula' for the conjugation must take the accent of that uncontracted vowel into account, and ποιέ+ετε becomes ποιεῖτε ( έὲ ➡️ εῖ , where the circumflex retains the natural rise and fall of the two uncontracted vowels)
   
   
   If you'd like to brush up on accents, Philomen Probert has an awesome book with all the rules of accents, and exercises to reinforce them: https://www.amazon.com/Short-Accentuation-Ancient-Advanced-Language/dp/1853995991
   
   (This can easily be found on certain Russian pirate book websites too, though I don't think I can link one here)
   
   
   Another book that may help is Hansen and Quinn's Greek: An Intensive Course, which, as the name suggests, is designed to be used for intense language acquisition. (This can also be found by dedicated pirates)

Philomen Probert's book A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek might help you here - she explains matters fairly simply and has a ton of exercises for practice.

[This PDF from UT Dallas should also help.] (http://udallasclassics.org/maurer_files/GGH-2009-web.pdf) It's a bit of an infodump, but if you reference it continually for a month or two you should fall into the right habits regarding accentuation.

For what it's worth, I once heard that using the recessive rule for both nouns and verbs, while inaccurate, would grant about an 80% result. Not that I'm recommending this, but if you get desperate (or you're in an exam and can't remember how the nominative of something is accented) you could try that.