τις
τις - Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κῐς (kis) – Thessalian
- σῐς (sis) – Arcadocypriot
- τῐρ (tir) – Laconian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tis/ → /tis/ → /tis/
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA: /tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /tis/
Pronoun
τῐς • (tis) (with ἔγκλισις, moving back its accent)
- (indefinite, masculine/feminine) someone, anyone, a certain one
- (indefinite, in neuter) something, anything, a certain thing
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||
| Nominative | τις | τι | τινέ | τινέ | τινές | τινά | ||
| Genitive | τινός,του | τινός,του | τινοῖν | τινοῖν | τινῶν | τινῶν | ||
| Dative | τινί,τῳ | τινί,τῳ | τινοῖν | τινοῖν | τισί(ν) | τισί(ν) | ||
| Accusative | τινά | τι | τινέ | τινέ | τινάς | τινά | ||
τις - Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtis/
- Homophone: της (tis)
Article
τις • (tis) f pl
Declension
| number | singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gender | m | f | n | m | f | n |
| nominative | ο | η | το | οι | οι | τα |
| genitive | του | της | του | των | των | των |
| accusative | το(ν)* | τη(ν)* | το | τους | τις | τα |
| * The final "ν" is preserved before vowels, and the plosive/affricate consonants: κ, π, τ, ξ, ψ, μπ, ντ, γκ, τσ, τζ
1. Archaic forms used in certain fixed phrases: τοις (tois), τας (tas) | ||||||
Related terms
Pronoun
τις • (tis) (weak personal pronoun)
- them (3rd person feminine plural, accusative; used before the verb)
Alternative forms
- τες (tes) (used after the verb)
Related terms
| Number (style) | singular (familiar) | plural (formal) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| strong | weak | strong | weak | |||||||||
| m | f | n | m | f | n | m | f | n | m | f | n | |
| nominative | αυτός • | αυτή • | αυτό • | τος • | τη • | το • | αυτοί • | αυτές • | αυτά • | τοι • | τες • | τα • |
| genitive | αυτού • | αυτής • | αυτού • | του • † | της • † | του • † | αυτών • | αυτών • | αυτών • | τους • † | τους • † | τους • † |
| accusative | αυτόν • | αυτήν • | αυτό • | τον • | την • | το • | αυτούς • | αυτές • | αυτά • | τους • | τις •, τες •‡ | τα • |
| There is no 3rd person vocative case. † These terms double as possessive pronouns. ‡ "τις" is used before a verb, "τες" after a verb.. All personal pronoun forms are displayed at εγώ (egó, “I”). | ||||||||||||
Pronoun
τις • (tis) m (feminine τις, neuter τι) interrogative (Polytonic spelling: τίς)
- (archaic, formal, mostly in set phrases) who? (what? / which person or people?)
- τις ει; (τίς εἶ; − military, recognition)
- tis ei?
- who are you?
- τίνι τρόπω; (τίνι τρόπῳ;)
- tíni trópo?
- in what way?
- Τίνος είσαι συ; (stereotypical phrase associated with elderly Greeks in small villages and communities to those they don't recognise)
- Tínos eísai sy?
- Whose [child] are you?
Usage notes
- Of the ancient interrogative pronoun τίς (tís) the forms τίνος (tínos), plural τίνων (tínon) and the neuter τι (ti) are used in Standard Modern Greek as well. All other forms are archaic, used in quotations and set phrases.
Declension
As in the ancient inflection of τίς, here in monotonic spelling
| number case \ gender | singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | τις • | τις • | τι • | τίνες • | τίνες • | τίνα • |
| genitive | τίνος • | τίνος • | τίνος • | τίνων • | τίνων • | τίνων • |
| accusative | τίνα • | τίνα • | τι • | τίνας • | τίνας • | τίνα • |
| vocative | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| All forms except genitives τίνος, τίνων and τι, are only used in set phrases in Modern Greek. Especially the datives τίνι (masculine, feminine, neuter singular), τίσι (masculine, feminine, neuter plural). | ||||||
Synonyms
Standard Modern Greek: