τοῦ (tou)

τοῦ is an Ancient Greek form of ὁ, meaning “the; (Hom.) he, she, it; this, that”. It is the genitive singular masculine article.

Found 83,921 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.196: ἡρώων. τοῦ δʼ οὔτινʼ ὑπέρτερον ἄλλον ὀίω,

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70.7: … οἰκείων στέρεσθαι ἡγοῦνται, ἃ δ’ ἂν ἐπελθόντες κτήσωνται, ὀλίγα πρὸς τὰ μέλλοντα τυχεῖν πράξαντες. ἢν δ’ ἄρα του καὶ πείρᾳ σφαλῶσιν, ἀντελπίσαντες ἄλλα ἐπλήρωσαν τὴν χρείαν· μόνοι γὰρ ἔχουσί τε ὁμοίως καὶ ἐλπίζουσιν ἃ ἂν ἐ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.49: Τοῦ δὴ λοιποῦ προσεῖχον αὐτῷ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡδέως κἂν τυραννεῖσθαι ἤθελον πρὸς αὐτοῦ· ὁ δʼ οὐχ εἵλετο, ἀλλὰ καὶ Πεισ …

All forms of ὁ (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.