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What is the difference between “thee” and “thou”?

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What is the difference between thee and thou and how are they used? Answer 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 … Read more

What does “thy” mean?

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I read a sentence containing the word thy, but I cannot find the meaning of that word. Is it older English, or is it still used in contemporary English today? Answer “Thy” is an English word that means “your” in the second person singular. English used to have a distinction between singular and plural in … Read more