οὔσης (ouses)

οὔσης is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the present active participle genitive singular feminine.

Found 1,044 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.2: τῆς γὰρ ἐμπορίας οὐκ οὔσης, οὐδ’ ἐπιμειγνύντες ἀδεῶς ἀλλήλοις οὔτε κατὰ γῆν οὔτε διὰ θαλάσσης, νεμόμενοί τε τὰ αὑτῶν ἕκαστοι ὅσον ἀποζῆν …

New Testament, John 20.19: Οὔσης οὖν ὀψίας τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ τῇ μιᾷ σαββάτων, καὶ τῶν θυρῶν κεκλεισμένων ὅπου ἦσαν οἱ μαθηταὶ διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ἦλθεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἔστη εἰς τὸ μέσον, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν.

Aesop, Fables 106: … ἁλισκόμενα μετενόουν καὶ τὴν γλαῦκα ἐθαύμαζον ἐπὶ τῇ ξυμβουλῇ. Καὶ νῦν ἔτι οὕτως ἔχουσιν, ὡς δεινῆς καὶ σοφῆς οὔσῃς αὐτῆς, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐθέλουσι πλησιάζειν, ἡγούμενα ἀγαθόν τι ἀπολαύειν τῆς ξυνουσίας. Προσίασι δὲ μάτην ἐπὶ κ …

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.