Personal ending

A personal ending is the bit tacked on the end in forming a verb to indicate the person and number. The resulting table of verbs from the same root with different personal endings form a conjugation table. Personal endings to indicate person and number is only slightly visible in English (one person runs, two persons run) but are, of course, very common in various European languages. The letters which form the personal endings in Greek are sometimes even quite similar to the corresponding ones in some European languages.

There are four types of personal endings:
 * Primary active
 * Primary middle/passive
 * Secondary active
 * Secondary middle/passive

Primary endings are used for verbs in the Present, Future and Perfect tenses. The result use Secondary endings.

Secondary endings are (almost) always accompanied by an augment.

Primary active endings
The primary active endings can be learned and memorise in this way:

These are easier to learn but the endings above include the connecting vowels ε or ο and also include other changes which take place when forming active indicative verbs. Mounce in Basics of Biblical Greek however recommends learning the "true endings". This makes it easier to see what goes on when comparing with other types of endings.

The true primary active endings are: The primary active endings can be learned and memorise in this way:

Comparison
It might be easier to memorise the endings by placing the primary and seconday endings side by side as their similarities can be seen.