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τινί (tini)

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

Found 2,669 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1.2: κίνησις γὰρ αὕτη μεγίστη δὴ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐγένετο καὶ μέρει τινὶ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὡς δὲ εἰπεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1358: λόγοι δʼ ἐχώρουν· Τίνι λόγῳ πορθμεύετε

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.