The interrogative pronoun τίς, τί

The paradigm for τίς, τί is as follows:

(The paradigm is in the usual order: masculine, feminine, and neuter, reading across; nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative cases reading down; the plural forms are listed below the singular forms.)


Notice that the masculine and feminine forms are identical; this is why the word is listed as τίς, τί instead of τίς, τίς, τί.


Notice also that each word has an accent, and that the accent on the two-syllable forms is on the first syllable.

The endings of τίς, τί follow, more or less, the endings of third declension nouns.









τίς, τί is an interrogative pronoun; that is, it introduces a question. The meaning is something like: who? which? what?


E.g., τίς λέγει; Who is speaking?

τί βλέπει; What is he/she saying?


The neuter singular form, τί, is also often used to mean 'why?'

τί λέγει ταύτα; Why is he/she saying these things?


τίς, τί must be distinguished from τις, τι. More on that in the next post.