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ὑμεῖς
ὑμεῖς
Ancient Greek
| case | second person | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | ||
| str. | encl. | str. | str. | |
| nominative | σύ | σφώ, σφῶϊ | ῡ̔μεῖς | |
| genitive | σοῦ | σου | σφῷν | ῡ̔μῶν |
| dative | σοί | σοι | σφῷν | ῡ̔μῖν |
| accusative | σέ | σε | σφώ, σφῶϊ | ῡ̔μᾶς |
| adjective | σός | ῡ̔μέτερος | ||
Alternative forms
Pronoun
ῡ̔μεῖς • (hūmeîs)
Usage notes
The singular and dual are σύ (sú) and σφώ (sphṓ).
Inflection
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ῡ̔μές, ῡ̔μέν | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | ῡ̔μέων, ῡ̔μῶν | ||||||||||||
| Dative | ῡ̔μῐ́ν, ὗμῐν† | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | ῡ̔μέ | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | ῡ̔μές, ῡ̔μέν | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
†enclitic |
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| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ῠ̓́μμες | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | ῠ̓μμέων | ||||||||||||
| Dative | ῠ̓́μμῐ(ν) | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | ῠ̓́μμε | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | ῠ̓́μμες | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.
†enclitic |
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| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | οὐμές | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | οὐμίων | ||||||||||||
| Dative | οὐμίν | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | οὐμέ | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | οὐμές | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
†enclitic |
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Related terms
References
- σύ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὑμεῖς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «ὑμεῖς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «ὑμεῖς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G5210”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 325, 325 D
- Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press