Thee

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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Homophones 1.3 Etymology 1.4 Personal pronoun 1.4.1 Translations 1.4.2 See also 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun

English

thee

Pronunciation

• AHD: thē
• IPA: /ðiː/
• SAMPA: /Di:/

Homophones

• the (when stressed)

Etymology

From the Middle English and Anglo-Saxon the.

Personal pronoun

1. (archaic or literary) you (informal or when addressing God)

Quot: M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40

When our Chiefs command us, we never require the reasons: I can say nothing else to thee.

Note: Thee is the objective case of thou, but it eventually came to be used by Quakers, Amish, and other Pennsylvania Dutch people in place of the nominative thou, along with the third person singular form of verbs.

"Thee is a little strange, I think."

Translations

• French: toi (informal and addressing one person; used after a preposition), te (informal and addressing one person; used before a verb), vous (formal or addressing more than one person; used after a preposition or before a verb)
• Italian: te (informal and addressing one person; used after a preposition), ti (informal and addressing one person; used before a verb), voi (formal or addressing more than one person; used after a preposition), vi (formal or addressing more than one person; used before a verb)

See also

• thou
• thy
• you

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Dutch

Noun

thee m

1. tea