τινʼ (tin)

τινʼ is an Ancient Greek form of τις, meaning “someone, anyone, a certain; some”. It is the accusative singular masculine pronoun.

Found 835 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.766: ἐλπόμενος πυκινήν τινʼ ἀπὸ σφείων ἐσακοῦσαι

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.6.93: … νδος πόντῳ ἀγαλλομένη. Ἀπεφθέγξατο· μέτρον ἄριστον. καὶ Σόλωνι ἐπέστειλεν οὕτω· Κλεόβουλος Σόλωνι “Πολλοὶ μέν τιν ἔασιν ἕταροι καὶ οἶκος πάντη· φαμὶ δὲ ἐγὼν ποτανεστάταν ἐσεῖσθαι Σόλωνι τὰν Λίνδον δαμοκρατεομέναν. καὶ ἁ νᾶσ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 4.5: αὐτὸς δʼ ἐς τίνʼ ἄφαντος ὁ βουκόλος ᾤχετο χώραν;

All forms of τις (declension 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.