είναι
See also: εἶναι
Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek εἶναι (eînai), present infinitive of εἰμί (eimí, “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 (eînai), but from the Byzantine Greek ἔναι (énai) < Ancient Greek ἔνι (éni), a short form of ἔνεστι (énesti, “to be in”), and in unison with the forms είμαι (eímai), είσαι (eísai).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editείναι • (eínai)
- third-person singular present of είμαι (eímai): "he is, she is, it is"
- το όνομά μου είναι …
- to ónomá mou eínai …
- my name is …
- third-person plural present of είμαι (eímai): "they are"
Noun
editείναι • (eínai) n (indeclinable)
- (philosophy) being, that which exists
- «To Είναι και το Μηδέν» ― «To Eínai kai to Midén» ― Being and Nothingness
Title of the French book L'Être et le Néant by Jean-Paul Sartre.
- «To Είναι και το Μηδέν» ― «To Eínai kai to Midén» ― Being and Nothingness
- 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.
- (figurative) 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.
References
edit- ^ είναι, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- ^ είναι - Babiniotis, Georgios (2002) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: […] [Dictionary of Modern Greek (language)] (in Greek), 2nd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias [Lexicology Centre], 1st edition 1998, →ISBN.
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