Thou
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Pronunciation
- AHD: thou
- IPA: /ðaʊ/
- SAMPA: /DaU/
Etymology
From Anglo-Saxon thu; akin to German du.
English
Personal pronoun
2nd person singular, nominative case (plural: ye or you)
(objective case: thee; reflexive: thyself, possessive determiner: thy; possessive pronoun: thine)
Usage
Thou is used with the archaic second person singular of verbs, which usually ends in -st.
- "Lovest thou me?"
Translations
- Esperanto: ci
- French: tu
- German: du
- Hebrew: אתה m, את f
- Japanese: 汝 (なんじ), 君 (きみ, kimi)
- Latin: tu
- Spanish: tu
Verb
(Inflected forms: thoued, thouing)
- to use the word thou.
Noun
- 0.001 inches (in UK English, American English uses mil) (In this context it is pronounced as the first syllable of thousand.)