Thou, Thee, Thy, and Thine

A video giving a brief history of the English language and the curious pronouns thou, thee, thy, thine, ye, and you.

[garnett]

Thou- singular you
Thee: object pronoun (she likes "you")
Thy: your
Thine: yours

[PedroSilva-ieov]

Oh God, English is not even my first language, what am I doing here?

[ynfbcdd]

When thou hath been enlightened with this godly content produced by the allfather himself
*I am no longer a mortal peasant of simple thought*

[wingedhussar]

It's really funny that Germans have much less difficulties with understanding Early Modern English than English people...

thou - du
thy - dein 
thee - dir (indirect objekt)/ dich (direct object)
thine - dein 

thou art = du bist
thou hast = du hast
thou comest = du kommst
thou goest = du gehst

[thenoobflutisttmearraperec]

“Thou hast journeyed far, Chosen Undead”

[angeldiaz]

first time I ever wanted someone to push their videos to 12 minutes.

[andresanchez]

Why am I ever here? Spanish is my first language. Anyway, it's a very interesting and simple way to understand the archaic English.

[johngledhill]

These words are still in use today in West Yorkshire where I was born, known locally as 'thee and thou Yorkshire'
" Tek thee sen art " means take your self out.
" Thar " used as you're, as in 'thar's reet' you are right.
As a footnote, when you see 'Ye' written, as in 'Ye old curiosity shop' or 'Ye olde starre inn', this is not pronounced 'yee', the 'Y' symbol was used to represent ' th '

[littlebaby]

In Norwegian, we have similar pronouns.
Thou = Du
Thee = Deg
Thy, Thine = *Din* (masculine singular), *di* (feminine singular), *ditt* (neuter singular), *dine* (plural)

[azeem]

I was playing Elden Ring and Ranni’s way of speaking led me to this video

[royrowland]

This "ye" is not to be confused with the ye on old signs of businesses, like "Ye Olde Tavern". That Ye is a whole different story, and it just means "The". There used to be a letter in the English alphabet for the "Th" sound, but certain printing presses did not have that letter, so they used "Y" instead.

[superinvulgar]

Thou: Tu, Du.
Thee: ti, toi e te
Thy: teu, tuo, ton e tuyo
Thine: teus, tui, tons e tuyos
Ye: vós, vos, voi e vous

[sintaxi]

Also--English has changed from highly synthetic to analytic. In analytic languages, word order (Subject-Verb-Object) is most important in determining meaning. English merged the accusative and dative cases into one objective case. This is why German at first looks easy to learn for English speakers, but turns out to be just as difficult as Romance languages. Gendered nouns and articles can be a bitch to learn, for some.

[zagadkamisteriya]

There are still dialects of English that use ye as a plural version.

[kasper]

Wait, so ye is actual word not a meme

[kngnes]

I was learning English for a long time and met this strange words. I've googled that they were old form of pronouns but every time I heard a sentence it was different from what I'd expected. The problem was in merging subject and object in nowadays English. Amazing vid, explained greatly!

[JamesBond-oxpy]

Thee Thy Shall Forth Gospel Jesus Saviour Saints

[khangiluta]

I should like to thank thee for this video. Thou shouldst make more about this subject.

[KeeloeUvTee]

For those of you who may be wandering, the ye in "ye olde" is not ye at all, it's actually þe. Over time, Þ started looking more and more like a y, and when the printing press was brought to England, people opted to use the y instead of Þ. Btw, Þ is uppercase and þ is lowercase.

[FunsongsCoUkaction_songs]

Great lesson - well and entertainingly made!! I'm going to show it to my advanced English learners at Bologna University.