Declining the indefinite pronouns and adjectives

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christophershelt
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Declining the indefinite pronouns and adjectives

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To Everyone--
My teacher taught us about the interrogative pronouns and adjectives last semester, providing a chart at the time, which declined the interrogative much like we would decline a noun, with Masc and Fem., neuter and singular and plural. However, she is now teaching us indefinite pronouns and adjectives, and although they are very simiular, she has not provided a chart like she did with the interrogatives.
If there is someone here who understands what I'm talking about, could you provide me with just such a chart? It could be included in one of these replies, as the following chart on interrogatives shows:

SINGULAR PLURAL
masc./fem. neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
nom. ti/s ti/ ti/nes ti/na
gen. ti/nos ti/nwn
dat. ti/ni ti/si(n)
acc. ti/na ti/ ti/nas
ti/na


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Post by chad »

hi, see:

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgr ... html#par32

that's the attic table; if you're studying homer, see pharr ss768-9.

the interrogatives and indefinites are basically the same, other than (a) the accents, (b) the alternatives for the neut pl nom/acc of the indefinites, and (c) the word placement, i.e.

ti/j a)/nqrwpos; "what man?"
a)/nqrwpo/j tij "a man"

if there's an emphasis on the indefinite however, it can keep its accent, e.g.

o( ti\j a)/nqrwpoj "a man"

(for an e.g. of this last e.g., see aristotle 1b line 4:

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/demo/browser?uid ... context=31 )

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