Conjunctions in Different Tenses
All three participle tenses are used in forming a genitive absolute. This results in different meanings of text and different translations, because of different relations in time between the independent and the dependent clause. Present participles are used when the information in the dependent clause happens "during" the independent clause, and are therefore translated as such. Either such a translated genitive absolute begins with, for example, while or as, or a present participle is used.
Aorist participles are used when the dependent clause takes place before the independent clause. This means that instead of while and as, after and when are the conjunctions in translations, or a perfect participle is applied and not a present one. Future participles, which are less common than their present and aorist counterparts, give information about what will or might be.
Apart from translations with these conjunctions, others are also frequently used while translating a genitive absolute, such as because, however, or although.
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