Autoi

Autoi is the transliteration of the Greek word αυτοί, the masculine plural subject pronoun in Modern Greek. It is commonly translated into English as "they" and is used to refer to a group that has already been mentioned or is understood from context. In Greek orthography, the form αυτοί appears with the acute accent on the iota, and in Latin-script transcription it is often written as autoi or autoí, depending on the transcription system.

Usage and grammar

Autoi functions as a third-person plural pronoun that serves as the subject of a sentence. It agrees in number and gender with the noun it replaces or with the implied group; masculine plural is used when the group is male or mixed, while feminine and neuter forms exist for other groups (e.g., αυτές for "they" feminine, αυτά for "they" neuter). Examples include: Αυτοί έρχονται. (They are coming.) Αυτοί διάβασαν το βιβλίο. (They read the book.)

Orthography and transliteration

The Greek spelling αυτοί uses the letters alpha, upsilon, tau, omicron, iota with a stress accent on the iota. In scholarly texts, autoi is a common romanization, though some systems render it as autoí to indicate the stress.

Relation to other terms

Autoi is primarily encountered in discussions of Modern Greek grammar and in linguistic analyses of pronouns and demonstratives. Outside linguistic contexts, the sequence autoi may appear as a proper name or as part of branding, but it has no widely recognized meaning beyond its role as the Greek pronoun.

See also

Greek pronouns, Greek demonstratives, Modern Greek grammar.