[B-Greek] oudeis

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Dec 10 19:39:45 EST 2003


At 4:05 PM -0800 12/10/03, Steve Raine wrote:
>Hello folks--
>
>I presume  OUDEIS,  OUDEMIA,  and  OUDEN  decline only in the Singular (as
>EIS, MIA, EN)
>since that's all I find.
>
>We're thinking about the expression: "none of them".  Seems it calls for
>plural.

Who's "we"? The expression "none of them" in Greek is just as it is in
English: singular pronoun with a dependent partitive genitive. "None" in
English is singular, so the Greek OUDEIS AUTWN just like TIS AUTWN.
-- 

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