Ancient Greek:Articles
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Definite article
Attic Greek has a definite article, but no indefinite article. The definite article agrees with its associated noun in number, gender and case. Proper names usually take a definite article, as do abstract nouns. In earlier Greek, for instance Homeric Greek, there was no definite article as such, the corresponding forms still having their original use as demonstrative pronouns.
The definite article is declined thus:
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||||
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| Singular | Dual | Plural | Singular | Dual | Plural | Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | ὁ (ho) | τώ (tṓ) | οἱ (hoi) | ἡ (hē) | τά (tā́) | αἱ (hai) | τό (tó) | τώ (tṓ) | τά (tá) |
| Genitive | τοῦ (toû) | τοῖν (toîn) | τῶν (tôn) | τῆς (tês) | ταῖν (taîn) | τῶν (tôn) | τοῦ (toû) | τοῖν (toîn) | τῶν (tôn) |
| Dative | τῷ (tôi) | τοῖν (toîn) | τοῖς (toîs) | τῇ (têi) | ταῖν (taîn) | ταῖς (taîs) | τῷ (tôi) | τοῖν (toîn) | τοῖς (toîs) |
| Accusative | τόν (tón) | τώ (tṓ) | τούς (toús) | τήν (tḗn) | τά (tā́) | τάς (tás) | τό (tó) | τώ (tṓ) | τά (tá) |
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