"Who are you?"
Translation:Ποιος είσαι;
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I don't understand why "who are you" must refer to a male. If I ask a woman who she is, how would I do that?
So, is this vocative case? I can't find it on your chart, and vocative is not included.
The "vocative" is simply when we call someone to get his/her attention. E.g. Kosta come here for a minute. It's the simplest form of the name or word. See here for the cases:
https://www.greekgrammar.eu/pdffiles/cases.pdf
It's the last one on the page.
Why είσαι as opposed to είσαστε? If asking "Who are you?" isn't it rather likely to expect the formal over the informal?
"Eίστε" was one of the accepted translations, "είσαστε" has been added now as well!
I got offered only "ποια είσαι". I know that is also correct, but quite strange it's not in musculine "ποιος".
