Inherited from the medieval article τὲς (feminine accusative plural), from Ancient Greek τάς (tás). It survives as weak pronoun form in Standard Modern Greek. Also as article form in idioms, equivalent to standard τις (tis).[1]
τες • (tes) (weak personal pronoun) see: εγώ (egó)
| Number (style) | singular (familiar) | plural (formal) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| strong | weak | strong | weak | |||||||||
| m | f | n | m | f | n | m | f | n | m | f | n | |
| nominative | αυτός • | αυτή • | αυτό • | τος • | τη • | το • | αυτοί • | αυτές • | αυτά • | τοι • | τες • | τα • |
| genitive | αυτού • | αυτής • | αυτού • | του • † | της • † | του • † | αυτών • | αυτών • | αυτών • | τους • † | τους • † | τους • † |
| accusative | αυτόν • | αυτήν • | αυτό • | τον • | την • | το • | αυτούς • | αυτές • | αυτά • | τους • | τις •, τες •‡ | τα • |
| There is no 3rd person vocative case. † These terms double as possessive pronouns. ‡ "τις" is used before a verb, "τες" after a verb.. All personal pronoun forms are displayed at εγώ (egó, “I”). | ||||||||||||
τες • (tes) f pl