Jonathan:
In Van Voorst's Expanding Your NT Vocabulary (or similar title), he lists the
50 most common verbs with all six principal parts. What I give my students
includes that list as well as additions from the lists in a couple other
beginning grammars (most beginning grammars have a list of irregular verbs
somewhere). I get my students to memorize them by saying the six principle
parts (AGW, ACW, HGAGON, HXA, HGMAI, HXQHN) as well as writing them. I
learned the list alphabetically and can recite them, which I do mentally when
I come across a form that looks familiar. I also present quizzes with
miscellaneous forms and have them parse them. I started to make my own flash
cards, but gave up on that for the amount of work.
I can recommend Van Voorst, which lists words by word families in order of
frequency, as helpful in learning vocab, although it's still a struggle to
stuff words with definitions and no context into my brain.
Karen Pitts
Hopewell Presbyterian Church, Hopewell, N.J., teacher of NT Greek
David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, N.J., statistician
kpitts@sarnoff.com