"Εγώ βρήκα τα βιβλία."

Translation: I found the books.

[rwistvan]

Eurêka!

[jaye16]

Well done. That's what the famous Eureka comes from.

[Vemund75118]

Εγω βρικα. Εγωβρικα. Εfρεκα. Ευρεκα. Eureka. Jøss! I was crawling a mountain once, and near the top I realized/understood that the global ocean in the time of Noah could have been all the groundwater leaving a hot earth. Then the ocean floor could have sunk proportional to the amount of water leaving the ground. Me too, I felt like Arkimedes, and me too I shouted "Eureka"!

[troll1995]

Εύρηκα is the ancient form of βρήκα (the ε was dropped). The verb was ευρίσκω. It's not a contraction of εγώ + βρήκα. :)

[jaye16]

That's so interesting.

[JenniferMarot]

Why is the accent not three syllables from the end as described in the hints?

[HastaLaVista83]

Some verbs are irregular.

[no.name.42]

Why doesn't it have an epsilon prefix?

[troll1995]

In modern Greek the epsilon prefix (augment) is not added if it is not accented. So we have βρήκα (I found) but έδωσα (I gave). ;)

[Marva441926]

But why is it βρήκα rather than έβρηκα? Isn't the aorist tense supposed to always be proparoxytone?

[troll1995]

This one is irregular. It's βρήκα for past simple but έβρισκα for past continuous.