τινα (tina)

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

Found 8,825 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.463: Αἰσονίδη, τίνα τήνδε μετὰ φρεσὶ μῆτιν ἑλίσσεις;

New Testament, Matthew 16.13: Ἐλθὼν δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἰς τὰ μέρη Καισαρίας τῆς Φιλίππου ἠρώτα τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ λέγων Τίνα λέγουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι εἶναι τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου;

Aesop, Fables 131: Ἔλαφος νόσῳ περιπεσοῦσα, ἐπί τινος τόπου πεδινοῦ κατεκέκλιτο. Τινὰ δὲ τῶν θηρίων εἰς θέαν αὐτῆς ἐλθόντα, τὴν παρακειμένην τῇ ἐλάφῳ νομὴν κατεβοσκήθησαν· εἶτα ἐκείνη τῆς νόσου ἀ …

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.