Talk:Ancient Greek/Basic Nouns/Third Declension

This needs to be heavily improved and expanded. The use of simply pais is understating the 3rd declension. The actual nominative ending is s or lengthening but most grammars don't mention it while introducing the language. There are a number of model nouns to use including sarx (which very clearly shows that nominative ending of s) or pneuma. Since I stumbled upon this, I may find myself improving this wikibook significantly in my leisure time on my own computer where I can switch between writing in Greek and English with ease. Masterwinks (discuss • contribs) 15:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Paî
I am learning Ancient Greek using this wikibook but found paî contradictory to the pronunciation rules. It says under pronunciation that ai and oi are short if 1) they are at the end of the word 2) the word is not one of certain adverbs, in the optative, nor in the locative. Those were said to be the only exceptions to this rule. But since the circumflex is over aî in paî, vocative of paîs, there must be a mistake either in the pronunciation rules or in this table of the Third Declension. Perhaps "vocative" not "locative" was meant in the rules? (I presumed that there is a locative and that it was not a total mistake because, having learned Latin, I have heard of these cases before. I suggest you teach it also.) Wiki user wiki (discuss • contribs) 15:53, 7 January 2018 (UTC)