τις / τις
who? / anyone
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Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns
Historical Grammar
334. Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns. – The interrogative pronoun τίς, τί who, which, what? never changes its accent to the grave (154). The indefinite pronoun τὶς, τὶ any one, some one, anything, something is enclitic (181 b).
| singular | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interrogative | Indefinite | |||
| Nom. | τίς | τί | τὶς | τὶ |
| Gen. | τίν-ος, τοῦ | τιν-ός, τοῦ | ||
| Dat. | τίν-ι, τῷ | τιν-ί, τῷ | ||
| Acc. | τίν-α | τί | τινά | τὶ |
| dual | ||||
| N. A. V. | τίν-ε | τιν-έ | ||
| G. D. | τίν-οιν | τιν-οῖν | ||
| plural | ||||
| Nom. | τίν-ες | τίν-α | τιν-ές | τιν-ά |
| Gen. | τίν-ων | τιν-ῶν | ||
| Dat. | τί-σι(ν) | τι-σί(ν) | ||
| Acc. | τίν-ας | τίν-α | τιν-άς | τιν-ά |
a. ἄττα (not enclitic) is sometimes used for the indefinite τινά. ἄττα is derived from such locutions as πολλάττα, properly πολλά ̈ ττα (for τι ̯α).
335. ἄλλος. – The indefinite pronoun ἄλλος another (Lat. alius, cp. 110) is declined like αὐτός: ἄλλος, ἄλλη, ἄλλο (never ἄλλον).
336. Δεῖνα. – The indefinite pronoun δεῖνα, always used with the article, means such a one. It is declined thus: sing. ὁ, ἡ, τὸ δεῖνα; τοῦ, τῆς, τοῦ δεῖνος; τῷ, τῇ, τῷ δεῖνι; τὸν, τὴν, τὸ δεῖνα; plur. (masc.) οἱ δεῖνες, τῶν δείνων, τοὺς δεῖνας. Example: ὁ δεῖνα τοῦ δεῖνος τὸν δεῖνα εἰσήγγειλεν such a one son of such a one impeached such a one [D.] 13. 5. δεῖνα is rarely indeclinable. Its use is colloquial and it occurs (in poetry) only in comedy.
337. Other indefinite pronominal adjectives are: ἕτερος, -ᾱ, -ον: with article, the other, one of two, the one (Lat. alter, alteruter); without article, other, another, a second (alius). By crasis (69) ἅ̄τερος, θά̄τερον, etc. ἑκάτερος, -ᾱ, -ον: each (of two) uterque; pl. either party, both parties, as utrique. ἕκαστος, -η, -ον: each, each one, every, every one, used of more than one (quisque). μόνος, -η, -ον: alone, only, sole. πᾶς (299): all, entire, every. The negatives οὐδείς, μηδείς (349 b) no one (poetical οὔτις, μήτις, in prose only οὔτι, μήτι, declined like τὶς; accent 186), Lat. nemo, nullus. οὐδέτερος , μηδέτερος neither of two (Lat. neuter).
Syntax & Usage
1262. The interrogative pronouns are used substantively τίς; who? or adjectively τίς ἀνήρ; what man?
1263. The interrogatives (pronouns and adverbs, 340, 346) are used in direct and in indirect questions. In indirect questions the indefinite relatives ὅστις, etc., are generally used instead of the interrogatives.
τί βούλεται ἡμῖν χρῆσθαι; for what purpose does he desire to employ us? X. A. 1. 3. 18, οὐκ οἶδα ὅ τι ἄν τις χρήσαιτο αὐτοῖς I do not know for what service any one could employ them 3. 1. 40, A. πηνίκ' ἐστὶν ἄρα τῆς ἡμέρας; B. ὁπηλίκα; A. What's the time of day? B. (You ask), what time of day it is? Ar. Av. 1499.
N.— For peculiarities of Interrogative Sentences, see 2666, 2668.
1264. τί is used for τίνα as the predicate of a neuter plural subject when the general result is sought and the subject is considered as a unit: ταῦτα δὲ τί ἐστιν; but these things, what are they? Aes. 3. 167. τίνα emphasizes the details: τίν᾽ οὖν ἐστι ταῦτα; D. 18. 246.
1265. τίς asks a question concerning the class, τί concerning the nature of a thing: εἰπὲ τίς ἡ τέχνη say of what sort the art is P. G. 449 a, τί σωφροσύνη, τί πολιτικός; what is temperance, what is a statesman? X. M. 1. 1. 16, φθόνον δὲ σκοπῶν ὅ τι εἴη considering what envy is (quid sit invidia) X. M. 3. 9. 8.
1266. The indefinite pronoun τὶς, τὶ is used both substantively (some one) and adjectively (any, some). τὶς, τὶ cannot stand at the beginning of a sentence (181 b).
Loquentes Practice Reference
Our drill practices the interrogative τίς, τί, which Smyth § 334 declines side by side with the enclitic indefinite τὶς, τὶ. §§ 335–337 cover ἄλλος, δεῖνα and the remaining indefinites.