thee

«thee» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you

part of speech

pronoun, object form, one person

meaning for a pupil

You, used when you are the one being spoken to and are the object of the verb or preposition. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say you for both the subject and object forms.

examples

• Asshur shall carry thee away captive. (Torah NUM.24.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• "I be come to see thee." (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee." Rabbi Luria, gives the Hebrew version which I have translated. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

primary record

you

tests

manual 3; corpora 1938 (Torah 982, tales 945, Sefer Yetzirah 11); EWT 0; ratio 219.5 (Torah alone 2291.5); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked?
• Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
• Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
• 'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
• for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thee» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.