- What is the difference between thee and thou?
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 informal, subject (Thou art here = You are
- meaning - Thou or You? This is the problem! - English Language . . .
And thou who thinkest to seek Me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not unless thou knowest the mystery; that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, then thou wilt never find it without thee - "Charge of the Goddess", Doreen Valiente's revision
- Why are words like Thou Thee Ye no longer used in English?
Thou and thee did not stress respect, to my knowledge Whoever informed you as such probably felt that way due to associations between those particular pronouns and the King James Bible, which is probably where those pronouns are most associated with today Thou was the second-person nominative-cased pronoun Simply put, it was the second
- Does English use the word ‘thou’ in any situations nowadays?
I’ve both seen and heard forms like “thou is”, “thou doth” and “thou think” (should be thou art, thou dost and thou thinkest) I even heard someone say “thou ist” once, which seems to be an odd mixture of art and is, with a bit of German thrown in for good measure In other words: thou is dead, except in very, very specific
- Can I use word Thou, Thee, Thy and Thine like following
Thou requires a specific form of the verb, which always ends in -((e)s)t (e g , thou art, thou wert, thou canst, thou thinkest, etc ), so the first sentence is not grammatical The rest are fine The rest are fine
- Is there a pattern between thou and thee when used in a sentence
Here's an explanation of the difference between thou, thee, thy and thine An easy way to remember the difference is to think of the equivalents if you were using the first person (I my me mine): Thou = subject (i e you) Equivalent to the first-person "I" e g Thou art a scoundrel Thee = object (i e you) Equivalent to the first-person "me
- 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
- Did English ever have a formal version of you?
Used instead of thou in addressing a single person (originally as a mark of respect or deference, later generally: cf thou n , you pron ) 2 b In apposition to and preceding a n in the vocative 3 a Used as objective (accusative or dative) instead of you (in plural or singular sense) †3 b Used redundantly (‘ethical dative’) Obs
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