2010年9月22日 · 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 …

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 …

2020年3月3日 · 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 …

2011年6月29日 · 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 …

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, …

2018年3月16日 · 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 …

2019年6月26日 · 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. …

2014年3月26日 · The only possible case where a single person is referred to in the second person is Titus 2:7–8. The other epistle addressed to a single person (Philemon) uses only …

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. …

2021年7月6日 · Today I realised for the first time that in the KJV Bible both thou wast and thou wert are used, and I was intrigued by the need to have two forms for the same person and …