τινας (tinas)

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

Found 3,317 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.63.1: … άσασθαι ἐς τὴν Ποτείδαιαν, καὶ παρῆλθε παρὰ τὴν χηλὴν διὰ τῆς θαλάσσης βαλλόμενός τε καὶ χαλεπῶς, ὀλίγους μέν τινας ἀποβαλών, τοὺς δὲ πλείους σώσας.

Euripides, Hippolytus 670: τίνα νῦν ἢ τέχναν ἔχομεν ἢ τίνας

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 53: … ιιὼν καὶ πειρώμενος οὔτε τοῖς προπεπειραμένοις πιστεύειν ἀξιοῖς οὔτε τοῖς πολλοῖς ἐπαινοῦσιν καὶ μαρτυροῦσιν; Τίνας φὴς τοὺς πολλοὺς εἰδότας καὶ πεπειραμένους ἁπάντων; εἰ γάρ τις τοιοῦτός ἐστιν, ἱκανὸς ἔμοιγε καὶ εἷς, καὶ οὐκ …

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.