About Paradigms Master Pro

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What is it?

Paradigms Master Pro is a software quiz, quizzing you on paradigms (word-forms) in a number of languages. The tool is not meant to teach you anything, but to reinforce what you have already learned.

PMP can be used with any grammar, and by anyone who has studied one of the quizzed languages.

FAQ

Program statistics

The version quizzing both Biblical Greek and Biblical Hebrew has the same underlying databases, and hence has the same statistics.

Release history

All of the releases below have been provided free of charge as updates.

1.8.1 (January 3, 2019)

• A flaw was fixed in the version quizzing Biblical Greek. The flaw prevented answering correctly on some quizzes in "Full parsing" mode, because the 'tense' field was not set correctly, yet grayed out.
• Enhancement: The Hebrew verb quizzes now display the Hebrew lexeme quizzed in the quiz, in Hebrew script, instead of in Roman transliteration.
• Enhancement: The Hebrew quizze categories have been slightly reorganized to be more intuitive, and also shorter.

1.8.0 (December 15, 2018)

• Latin is now a quizzed language.
• The Hebrew quizzes have been totally reimagined. There is now a distinction between Textbook paradigms, and paradigms of extant forms. Also, the program now includes all extant, non-suffixed, non-weqatal forms in the BHS for all verbs in the database, including the model strong verb, KTB.
• The Spanish and Greek quiz structures have been improved.
• The quizzes have been reorganized into smaller categories for all quizzed languages.
• A few Greek and Hebrew forms have been corrected.
• PMP now looks better on screens with high resolutions (such as HiDPI Macbook Pros and iMacs).
• The program download is smaller, due to a new technology for drawing the forms.
• Various compatibility fixes for Mac and Windows.

1.7.11 (August 24, 2017)

• It should now be significantly easier to enter your license key.
• The program won't "forget" the license key between updates.
• The words of the quizzed languages are now drawn "on the fly". This should result in even better-looking fonts.
• Various beautifications.
• Various bugfixes.

1.7.10 (July 8, 2017)

• Bugfix for some Hebrew and Greek forms.
• Greek database significantly expanded.

1.7.9 (January 7, 2017)

• Bugfix for Hebrew on Windows.

1.7.8 (January 2, 2017)

• Some Hebrew forms were fixed.
• The Hebrew database was expanded.
• Various forms were fixed in the other languages.

1.7.7 (November 25, 2015)

• Various fixes.

1.7.6 (September 16, 2015)

• Various Greek and Hebrew forms were fixed.

1.7.5 (January 13, 2015)

• New look: We hope you like it.
• Hebrew: The "Prepositions + suffixes" quizzes containing the object marker 'et were fixed, so that they could run to completion without giving a blank screen.
• Hebrew: One form of the verb "sabab" had its vocalization fixed.
• Hebrew: The quiz names were made more consistent.

1.7.4 (September 15, 2014)

• Enhancement: Lots of Greek forms added. The total is now more than 3040 Greek forms.
• Enhancement: Lots of Hebrew forms added. The total is now more than 2060 Hebrew forms.
• Fix: It used to be that a few forms of the Hebrew verb QWM, though present and analyzed correctly, were present twice, and hence could indicate that a correct answer was wrong. This has been fixed.
• Changes: Various small cosmetic beautifications.

1.7.3 (February 15, 2014)

• The analysis of one Hebrew form was corrected (a form of Jare' was wrongly analyzed as nifal yiqtol 3ms, but which should have been both nifal yiqtol 2ms and 3fs).
• The Spanish form 'usted' is now correctly analyzed as 2nd singular, not 3rd singular!
• Various small cosmetic beautifications.

1.7.2 (May 24, 2013)

• Add two more, additional products to the portfolio: One quizzing only Biblical Greek, and one quizzing only Biblical Hebrew. This is the exact same data and the exact same program as the one quizzing Biblical Languages, except for splitting it into the separate languages.
• The 31 day free trial now gives access to all quizzes and all forms during the 31 day trial period.

1.7.1 (March 22, 2013)

• Glosses were added for Greek, Hebrew, and Spanish.
• A grading system was added at the end of each quiz (feedback).
• The front page is accessible immediately, without a license key dialog.
• Several of the pages were beautified (including the front page).
• The documentation was updated to reflect this version.

1.7.0 (October 20, 2012)

• The program looks better on small screens.
• Check for updates automatically every 7 days.
• Make it work on Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
• Hundreds of additions to the Greek database of forms.
• A few corrections of Greek and Hebrew forms.

1.6.5 (April 20, 2012)

• Hebrew: Fixed a few forms of KTB.
• Greek: Added one new quiz.
• Spanish: Removed all gerundio-only quizzes, since there was only ever one answer.

1.6.4 (January 21, 2012)

• A Hebrew form was corrected (missing holem in Qal Active Participle Masculine Singular of Naphal).
• Some Greek participles, which were in the database, were not quizzable even though they were present. This has been corrected.
• An issue with the random shuffling of the answers was fixed. In previous versions, the first answer was often correct -- too often. Now it is only correct around 25% of the time when there are 4 possible answers.

1.6.3 (September 24, 2011)

• A bug was introduced in 1.6.2 that scrambled the lemmas for Hebrew. No other languages were affected. This has been fixed in 1.6.3. Upgrading is highly recommended for users of the Biblical Languages version. Upgrading is optional for users of the Spanish Edition.

1.6.2 (September 23, 2011)

• Some hifil forms of the Hebrew verb SBB were incorrectly labelled as hofal. This has been fixed.
• The hofal forms of the Hebrew verbs SBB were added, bringing the total number of Hebrew forms to 1911.

1.6.1 (September 14, 2011)

• Fixed one Hebrew form, which was missing a shewa quiescens (hithpael cohortative 1st person common plural of KTB).
• Fixed links in Greek quizzes by lemma, so that the right lemma is chosen.

1.6.0 (August 31, 2011)

• For Windows and Mac OS X.
• Great increases in the number of quizzes and forms for Greek.
• Better-looking user interface.
• A few forms were fixed. There are no known errors in the database of forms at the time of release.

1.5.0 (December 30, 2010)

• For Windows and Mac OS X.
• For Spanish and for Greek and Hebrew.

1.4.0 (July 30, 2010)

• For Windows and Mac OS X.
• Only for Greek and Hebrew.
• Great increase in the number of quizzes and forms, both for Greek and for Hebrew.

1.3.0 (February 23, 2010)

• For Windows and Mac OS X.
• Only for Greek and Hebrew.
• A scoring system was added.

1.2.0 (January 9, 2010)

• For Windows and Mac OS X.
• About 80 forms were added to the Greek database.
• More Greek quizzes were added.
• "Check for updates" is a smoother process.

1.1.0 (December 20, 2009)

• Initial release.
• Only for Windows.
• Only for Greek and Hebrew.

License terms

Here you can view the program's license terms before you buy.

License terms

THIS IS NOT YOUR USUAL NONSENSE-LICENSE.
Please read. It actually gives you some rights you may like...

The program, including its documentation and databases, are copyright (C) 2009-2017 by Scripture Systems ApS.

You may install this program on an unlimited number of computers.

An unlimited number of users may use the free version of the program without a license key.

The full version of the program requires you to purchase or otherwise obtain a license key for the program.

A license key is valid for a certain number of simultaneous users.

For example, if you have bought a license key that is valid for 10 users, you may allow up to 10 people to use the program simultaneously. If you need more users to use the program simultaneously, you may elect to purchase more licenses.

You may copy this program and give away copies.

All other rights to the program and its underlying data are reserved. You may not sell, rent, lease, or sublicense the program. You may not disassemble, reverse-engineer, or reuse the program in whole or in part in other software.

License keys, including site-licenses, may be obtained from the author via the program website:

http://www.paradigmsmasterpro.com

Disclaimer of warranty

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

End of license terms.

About us

The instigator of this plot to teach the world languages for real is Dr. Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen, CEO of Scripture Systems ApS. He gets great help from his team:

The team

	Dr. Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen: Programming, design, and Greek quizzes. The Greek forms were mostly culled from Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek and his Morphology of Biblical Greek.
	Dr. Nicolai Winther-Nielsen: Has contributed the Biblical Hebrew exercises; they largely reflect the Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar by van der Merwe, Kroeze, and Naudé.
	Dr. Ana María Macias: Advice on Spanish forms and quizzes.
	Kirsten Holsegård-Rasmussen, MA: Advice on Spanish forms and quizzes.

We are fanatical

... About the correctness of our databases of forms, that is!

If you find any errors, please, please, please write to us and inform us!!! We have spent countless hours on the databases, and we really, really want them to be error free.

This benefits not only you, but all other users. After all, what good is it to learn something if that something is wrong?