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 ...

2016年12月6日 · Thee and you as object. Middle English: ye and you used alongside thou and thee as polite singular forms. Early Modern English: Distinction between ye as subject and you as object disappeared, you being used almost universally. Ye restricted to archaic, religious or literary contexts by the end of the 16th century. Thou similarly restricted by ...

2010年11月28日 · The is pronounced "thee" when it precedes a word that begins with a vowel (the apple, the overtone series, etc.) or (sometimes) an aspirated consonant (the historic occasion of his birth) or when the speaker wishes to differentiate a noun by calling it out for special dramatic emphasis. For example: "He was the heavyweight boxing champion."

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 ...

2019年6月26日 · "Thee" and "Thou" are not archaic in Northern England, although "thou" is often corrupted to "tha". I can certainly imagine someone in Yorkshire saying "I'll see thee later" or "What's tha got in t'bag?" "Thy" would be less common, but I doubt that it has died out entirely.

2018年3月16日 · 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.

2013年12月27日 · Thee and you were used as object. During the Middle English period, ye/you came to be used as a polite singular form alongside thou/thee. During Early Modern English, the distinction between subject and object uses of ye and you gradually disappeared.

2018年3月30日 · In "I thou thee", "thou" is a verb. The relevant definition in the OED is: trans. To address (a person) with the pronoun thou (or its equivalent in another language). (The quote in your question is one of the examples listed for this sense, in fact.) It's really the same pattern as "Don't 'honey' me!" which you may have actually heard in real life.

2015年11月3日 · In particular, thee is the indirect object in the first and the direct object of the second - by early Modern English these were no longer morphologically distinct. Thee is objective is indeed the real answer here, but I give thanks to thee is a red herring.

2019年6月7日 · Those are not the same thing because the emphatic one is stressed so that it is held longer and never reduced. There is only a length distinction between archaic I shall give thee animals and I shall give the animals — but the vowel is the same in both. –