The article in Ancient Greek is a monosyllable inflected word
It is used mainly before nouns and participles and sometimes before any other word that has a similar use, for example an adjective.
Some examples are:
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The article like the nouns, the adjectives and the participles have four cases, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, three genders, masculine, feminine and neutral, and two numbers singular and plural.
The following table sums up every form of the Article.
*You don't need to remember all these forms, try to "highlight" special features for example the letter "η" is common only to the feminine gender. The article will help you most of the times finding the gender and the form of the noun.
It is used mainly before nouns and participles and sometimes before any other word that has a similar use, for example an adjective.
Some examples are:
*Click the words to find info about them
The article like the nouns, the adjectives and the participles have four cases, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, three genders, masculine, feminine and neutral, and two numbers singular and plural.
- το ἀνδράποδον
- ο ἀνδριάς
- η πρόληψις
- το κύτος
The following table sums up every form of the Article.
*You don't need to remember all these forms, try to "highlight" special features for example the letter "η" is common only to the feminine gender. The article will help you most of the times finding the gender and the form of the noun.
The article does not have a vocative case. But we use ὦ instead.