είναι
See also: εἶναι
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EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek εἶναι (eînai), present infinitive of εἰμί (“I am”).
- (For the noun): Semantic loan from German Sein.[1]
- (For the 3rd person of verb) According to Babiniotis[2], not from the infinitive εἶναι, but from the Medieval Byzantine Greek ἔναι < Ancient Greek ἔνι, a short form of ἔνεστι (“to be in”), and in unison with the forms είμαι, είσαι.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
είναι • (eínai)
- 3rd person singular present form of είμαι (eímai).: "he is, she is, it is"
- το όνομά μου είναι … ― to ónomá mou eínai … ― my name is …
- 3rd person plural present form of είμαι (eímai).: "they are"
NounEdit
είναι • (eínai) n (indeclinable)
- (philosophy) being, that which exists
- «To Είναι και το Μηδέν» ― «To Eínai kai to Midén» ― "Being and Nothingness (Zero)"
Title of the French book «L'Être et le Néant» by Jean-Paul Sartre.
- one's inner world
- Όταν έμαθα την είδηση του θανάτου του, κατέρρευσε όλο μου το είναι.
- Ótan ématha tin eídisi tou thanátou tou, katérrefse ólo mou to eínai.
- When I learnt the news of his death, my whole being collapsed.
- (figuratively) everything dear in life
- Είσαι το είναι μου, ο έρωτας της ζωής μου.
- Eísai to eínai mou, o érotas tis zoḯs mou.
- You are my everything, my life's love.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ είναι in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
- ^ Babiniotis, Georgios (2002) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας [Modern Greek Dictionary] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Lexicology Centre