2010年8月17日 · Thy and thine patterned in the same way as my and mine do. We say mine when there is no noun phrase that the possessive pronoun directly modifies ("it's my car" but "it's mine"). It is just that there was an additional rule that if there is a noun phrase being modified that begins with a vowel, then the thine/mine form is used (so, it was true ...

2010年9月22日 · 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 ...

2017年8月18日 · Thy and thine are archaic forms corresponding to your and yours respectively. Use thy where you would use your (but see note at end of answer) and thine where you would use yours. Her and hers do not have alternate/archaic forms. Her is used as a possessive the same way my or your is, and hers is used like mine or yours.

2014年8月23日 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.

2011年6月29日 · My mother often uses words like "thou", "thy", and "thine" in everyday speech. A typical example is: "Thou art a jammy bugger!" She is from the north of England. I'm wondering whether this quirk of language is unique to her or if it's something to do with the area she comes from or possibly her age group. She's in her late 50's and comes from ...

2022年1月11日 · @DawoodibnKareem: both are found. The OED say "(b) beest forms (2nd singular). 1500s–1600s beest, 1600s bee'st. Historically, these continue indicative forms, but apparently at least some early modern English texts prefer beest (rather than art) in syntactic environments that otherwise favour use of the subjunctive such as conditional clauses, as …

2019年7月13日 · Where he sayth, The kings and princes shal giue thée milke, and shall be thy nursses, they shall doo honour and reuerence vnto thée with their faces flat vppon the earth: kings shall walke in thy lyght, and shall buylde thy walles, they shall bring vnto thée golde and siluer, and shall serue thée, thou shalte sucke the milke of nations, and ...

2016年1月8日 · Etymology - Exodus 14:14 The LORD shall fight for you , and ye shall hold your peace. 14:10-14 There was no way open to Israel but upward, and thence their deliverance came.

2015年11月2日 · Thank thou thy parents for giving thee life! (from a comment by Level River St.) the word "thou" is used for emphasis and is optional as we know that sentences in imperative mood have one of these two understood subjects: you (as singular) or you (as plural), or the archaic version thou and ye respectively.

When going through old English literature, especially stories and poems, we can see they have been full of words like "thou" and "thee" and "ye". Some of my English te...