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χρήσεται (chresetai)

χρήσεται is an Ancient Greek form of χράω, meaning “to declare (an oracle); to lend; (mid.) use”. It is the 3rd person singular future middle indicative.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 240: ὅτῳ μάλιστα χρήσεται ξυνευνέτῃ.

Plutarch, Marcellus 26.1: … μβανον, τὴν δὲ ἄλλην ἐξάγοντες οἱ χιλίαρχοι στρατιὰν παρενέβαλλον, ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ Ἀννίβας, ὦ Ἡράκλεις, εἶπε, τί χρήσεταί τις ἀνθρώπῳ μήτε τὴν χείρονα τύχην μήτε τὴν βελτίονα φέρειν εἰδότι; μόνος γὰρ οὗτος οὔτε νικῶν δίδωσιν ἀνάπαυ …

All forms of χράω (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.