τες
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from the medieval article τὲς (feminine accusative plural), from Ancient Greek τάς (tás). It survives as weak pronoun form in Standard Modern Greek. Also as article form in idioms, equivalent to standard τις (tis).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tes/ (unaccented: pronounced together with following word)
Pronoun
τες • (tes) (weak personal pronoun) see: εγώ (egó)
- they (3rd person feminine plural, nominative)
- them (3rd person feminine plural, accusative)
Alternative forms
- τις (tis) (used before the verb)
Related terms
Third person forms
| 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”). | ||||||||||||
References
- τες - Babiniotis, Georgios (2010) Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας Etymologikó lexikó tis néas ellinikís glóssas [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek language] (in Greek), Athens: Lexicology Centre
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