τινες (tines)

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

Found 4,164 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.556: καὶ χρειώ σφʼ ἐκόμισσε; τίνες σφέας ἤγαγον αὖραι;

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5.2: δηλοῦσι δὲ τῶν τε ἠπειρωτῶν τινὲς ἔτι καὶ νῦν, οἷς κόσμος καλῶς τοῦτο δρᾶν, καὶ οἱ παλαιοὶ τῶν ποιητῶν τὰς πύστεις τῶν καταπλεόντων πανταχοῦ ὁμοίως ἐρωτῶντες εἰ λῃσταί εἰσιν, ὡς οὔτε ὧν πυνθάνονται ἀπαξιούντων τὸ ἔργον, οἷς τε ἐπιμελὲς εἴη εἰδέναι οὐκ ὀνειδιζόντων.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.2.49: … Τὰ ὑπομνήματα α′. Περὶ ῥύακος τοῦ ἐν Σικελίᾳ α′. Περὶ τῶν ὁμολογουμένων α′. [Περὶ τῶν προβλημάτων φυσικῶν α′. Τίνες οἱ τρόποι τοῦ ἐπίστασθαι α′. Περὶ τοῦ ψευδομένου α′ β′ γ′.

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.