- What is the difference between thee and thou?
Thee, thou, and thine (or thy) are Early Modern English second person singular pronouns Thou is the subject form (nominative), thee is the object form, and thy thine is the possessive form Before they all merged into the catch-all form you, English second person pronouns distinguished between nominative and objective, as well as between singular and plural (or formal): thou - singular
- meaning - Thou or You? This is the problem! - English Language . . .
Don't thou those as thou thee - Yorkshire proverb, advising young people in particular against being overly familiar with their betters An interesting exception though, is that thou is used of deities, most particularly (given the history of the English) of the Christian god, though also of others:
- Does English use the word ‘thou’ in any situations nowadays?
Does English use the word thou in situations nowadays? For example, to humiliate an opponent by being overly familiar?
- Why are words like Thou Thee Ye no longer used in English?
Thou was the second-person nominative-cased pronoun Simply put, it was the second-person form of "he" (subject) Its roots go very far back, but in Old English it was rendered þū Thee, on the other hand, was the second-person accusative-cased pronoun (analogous to our third-person "him") In OE this was þē or þēc
- Did English ever have a formal version of you?
In Early Modern English, thou was the singular and you was the plural Plural you came to be used as a polite form of address (similar to the French vous, which is also used for the plural), but over time this polite form became more and more common, eventually displacing the singular thou altogether
- In what region is thou, etc. used in dialect?
Thou art is normally shortened to thar tha in Yorkshire - but thee, thar, thine are still relatively common, and useful if you want to refer to just one person So "Don't thee thar me, thee thars them that thars thee" makes perfect sense oop north edit: my understanding is that the plural you your originally was a polite form used to social superiors and thee thine was the familiar (like tu
- Can I use word Thou, Thee, Thy and Thine like following
Furthermore, "Thou" is a subject form while "thee" is the object form so could someone tell me if I can use them as following Who are thou? instead of Who are you? I have come to see thee instead of I have come to see you What are thy future dreams? instead of What are your future dreams?
- Is there a pattern between thou and thee when used in a sentence
I doubt this is a fax or anything That question's all about the difference between "thou" and "thee " Whereas in my question, it's about whether I should use thou or thee AGAIN when I'm about to ADD A THIRD 2nd-singular pronoun — which in this case, thou or thee — in a sentence that's addressing to a person, and that it isn't ending with neither a comma or a period yet
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