| SINGULAR | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | ὁ | βοῦς | μέγας ἐστίν. | ||||||
| genitive | οὐχ ὁρῶ τὸν | τοῦ | βοός | δεσπότην | |||||
| dative | προσχωρῶ | τῷ | βοΐ | ||||||
| accusative | ἐλαύνει | τὸν | βοῦν | εἰς τὸν ἀγρόν. | |||||
| vocative | ὦ | βοῦ | μὴ μένε ἀλλὰ πόνει! | ||||||
| PLURAL | |||||||||
| nominative | οἱ | βόες | ἰσχυροί εἰσιν. | ||||||
| genitive | τὰς βοὰς τὰς | τῶν | βοῶν | ||||||
| dative | προσχωροῦμεν | τοῖς | βουσίν | ||||||
| accusative | οὐ φοβοῦμαι | τοὺς | βοῦς | ||||||
| vocative | ὦ | βόες | ἕλκετε τὰ ἄροτρα, ταχέως. | ||||||
| These forms look worse than they actually are: |
| nom sg, voc sg, acc sg and pl, as well as dat pl all have ου The other forms are regular, except that in writing dative singular βοΐ has to take a diaeresis, otherwise it would be read as "boy".
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