φαίνεται (phainetai)

φαίνεται is an Ancient Greek form of φαίνω, meaning “to show, make appear; (mid./pass.) appear, seem”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 1,566 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.853: δοιὰ γὰρ οὖν κείνων ἔτι σήματα φαίνεται ἀνδρῶν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.69: … τι οἱ μὲν ἴσασιν ὧν δέονται, οἱ δʼ οὐκ ἴσασιν. ὀνειδιζόμενός ποτʼ ἐπὶ τῷ πολυτελῶς ζῆν ὑπὸ Πλάτωνος, ἔφη, ἆρα φαίνεταί σοι Διονύσιος ἀγαθός; τοῦ δʼ ὁμολογήσαντος, καὶ μήν, ἔφη, ζῇ ἐμοῦ πολυτελέστερον· ὥστʼ οὐδὲν κωλύει καὶ πολυτ …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 2.1: Φαίνεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν

All forms of φαίνω (conjugation 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.