Importing your deck into Anki
Your download is a plain tab-separated (TSV) file: front = Greek word, back = gloss Β· frequency Β· forms Β· first reference.
Step by step
- Open the Anki desktop app (free, from apps.ankiweb.net).
- Menu β File β Importβ¦ and choose your downloaded
.tsv file.
- Set Type to
Basic and pick the deck (or create a new one).
- Field separator: Tab. Anki usually detects this automatically.
- Field mapping: Field 1 β Front, Field 2 β Back.
- Make sure "Allow HTML in fields" is checked (the back uses
<br> for line breaks).
- Click Import. Done β your passage deck is ready to review.
Field mapping
| Column | Anki field | Contents |
| 1 | Front | Greek lemma (dictionary form) |
| 2 | Back | gloss Β· frequency Β· forms in the passage Β· first reference |
If the import looks wrong
- Greek shows as boxes/gibberish? The file is UTF-8. Import with Anki desktop (not a spreadsheet). If you opened it in Excel first, re-download and import the original file directly.
- Everything landed in one field? The separator wasn't Tab β set field separator to Tab in the import dialog.
- You see
<br> as text? Enable "Allow HTML in fields" in the import dialog.
- Too many cards? Use the Frequency filter in the tool (e.g. "Skip 30Γ+") to keep only the words you don't know yet, then re-download.
These decks are a study aid for reading preparation, not a substitute for a lexicon (BDAG/LSJ). See
Data & licenses.
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