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εἰμʼ (eim)

εἰμʼ is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”.

It can also be a form of εἶμι, “to go, come”. It is the 1st person singular present active indicative.

Found 139 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 247: ὡς ἔκπλεώς γε δαιτός εἰμ’ ὀρεσκόου·

Euripides, Heracleidae 562: ἐπεὶ σφαγῆς γε πρὸς τὸ δεινὸν εἶμʼ ἐγώ,

Euripides, Hecuba 284: κἀγὼ γὰρ ἦ ποτʼ, ἀλλὰ νῦν οὐκ εἴμʼ ἔτι,

All forms of εἰμί (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.