2010年9月22日 · 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 second person pronouns distinguished between nominative and objective, as well as between ...

2016年12月6日 · Thee and you as object. Middle English: ye and you used alongside thou and thee as polite singular forms. Early Modern English: Distinction between ye as subject and you as object disappeared, you being used almost universally. Ye restricted to archaic, religious or literary contexts by the end of the 16th century. Thou similarly restricted by ...

2010年11月28日 · The is pronounced "thee" when it precedes a word that begins with a vowel (the apple, the overtone series, etc.) or (sometimes) an aspirated consonant (the historic occasion of his birth) or when the speaker wishes to differentiate a noun by calling it out for special dramatic emphasis. For example: "He was the heavyweight boxing champion."

Thou and thee did not stress respect, to my knowledge. Whoever informed you as such probably felt that way due to associations between those particular pronouns and the King James Bible, which is probably where those pronouns are most associated with today. Thou was the second-person nominative-cased pronoun. Simply put, it was the second ...

2013年12月27日 · Thee and you were used as object. During the Middle English period, ye/you came to be used as a polite singular form alongside thou/thee. During Early Modern English, the distinction between subject and object uses of ye and you gradually disappeared.

2015年11月2日 · In particular, thee is the indirect object in the first and the direct object of the second - by early Modern English these were no longer morphologically distinct. Thee is objective is indeed the real answer here, but I give thanks to thee is a red herring.

2017年10月1日 · According to Etymology online, fie (late 13c) was a general sound of disgust that seems to have developed independently in many languages.

During the 14th century it also appears as a substitute for the singular obj. thee n. and nominative thou n., being originally used in token of respect in addressing a superior, but later also to an equal, and ultimately generally: compare thou pron. 1.

2011年6月29日 · So "Don't thee thar me, thee thars them that thars thee" makes perfect sense oop north. edit: my understanding is that the plural you/your originally was a polite form used to social superiors and thee/thine was the familiar (like tu/vous or du/sie). Gradually everybody adopted the more formal/polite form to sound gentlemanly.

2018年5月29日 · Thee = ‘you’ Well = in a positive manner; Fare thee well means ‘may things go well for you’! ‘Fare thee well’ appears in a lot of songs - often about sending people on a journey safely and happily, saying ‘goodbye and safe journey’ - although it is really about ‘the journey of life’ not exclusively, travelling.