Grammar - the Interrogative and the Indefinite Pronouns

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The Interrogative Pronouns ask questions : Eg. Who did that ? Whom did the dog bite ? Whose book is it ? To whom did you give it ? Who are they ? What did he ...
Grammar - the Interrogative and the Indefinite Pronouns __________________________________________________________________

The Interrogative Pronouns ask questions : Eg. Who did that ? Whom did the dog bite ? Whose book is it ? To whom did you give it ? Who are they ? What did he do ? The Indefinite Pronouns are usually best translated as someone, something, anyone, a certain person. The difference between the Interrogative and the Indefinite Pronouns in Greek is that the Interrogative Pronouns have an accent, and the sentence ends with a Greek question mark ; Masculine and Feminine have identical endings. Masculine/Feminine Singular Nom Acc Gen Dat Plural Nom Acc Gen Dat

Neuter

ti/j ti/na ti/noj ti/ni

who ? whom ? whose ? to, for, by, with, from, whom ?

ti/ ti/ ti/noj ti/ni

ti/nej ti/naj ti/nwn ti/sin

who ? whom ? whose ? to, for, by, with, from whom ?

ti/na ti/na ti/nwn ti/sin

Masculine/Feminine Singular Nom Acc Gen Dat Plural Nom Acc Gen Dat

what ? what ? of what ? to, for, by, with, from what ? what ? what ? of what ? to, for, by, with, from what ?

Neuter

tij tina tinoj tini

someone someone someone's to, for, by, with, from, someone

ti ti tinoj tini

tinej tinaj tinwn tisin

some people tina some people tina some people's tinwn to, for, by, with, from some people tisin

something something something's to, for, by, with, from something some things some things somethings' to, for, by, with, from somethings

The Indefinite Relative Pronoun "whoever" is a combination of In the New Testament it is found mainly in the Nominative :

Singular

o(stij

h(tij

o(ti

Plural oi(tinej

o(j and tij ai(tinej

a(tina

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