εἶμεν (eimen)

εἶμεν is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 1st person plural present active indicative.

Found 78 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1150: τῶν ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων εἰμὲν γένος. ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν ἤδη

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.33.3: τὸν δὲ πόλεμον, δι’ ὅνπερ χρήσιμοι ἂν εἶμεν, εἴ τις ὑμῶν μὴ οἴεται ἔσεσθαι, γνώμης ἁμαρτάνει καὶ οὐκ αἰσθάνεται τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους φόβῳ τῷ ὑμετέρῳ πολεμ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.14: … ιν αὔλησίς τι πρᾶγμα; — πάνυ μὲν οὖν. — ἄνθρωπος οὖν αὔλησίς ἐστιν; — οὐθαμῶς. — φέρʼ ἴδω, τί δʼ αὐλητάς; τίς εἶμέν τοι δοκεῖ; ἄνθρωπος; ἢ οὐ γάρ; — πάνυ μὲν οὖν. — οὐκ οὖν δοκεῖς οὕτως ἔχειν 〈κα〉 καὶ περὶ τἀγαθοῦ; τὸ μὲν ἀγα …

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.