Thou

Table of contents

1 Pronunciation 2 Etymology 1 English 1.1 Personal pronoun 1.1.1 Usage 1.1.2 Translations 1.2 Verb 1.3 Noun

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)

1. [Archaic or literary]: you (informal or addressing God); the person being addressed.

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
• Irish: tú
• Japanese: 汝 (なんじ ), 君 (きみ , kimi)
• Latin: tu
• Spanish: tu
• Chinese:你

Verb

(Inflected forms: thoued , thouing )

1. to use the word thou.

Noun

1. 0.001 inches (in UK English, American English uses mil) (In this context it is pronounced as the first syllable of thousand.)