thine

«thine» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: yours — 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

yours

part of speech

determiner or pronoun, possessive form, one person

meaning for a pupil

Belonging to you; used before a vowel sound or on its own, as in "shall be thine." tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say yours or your.

examples

• Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. (Torah NUM.18.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• "And she shall be thine," he exclaimed; "thine! (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity. (Torah DEU.25.12, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 3; corpora 187 (Torah 118, tales 69, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 21.2 (Torah alone 275.4); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be thine.'
• If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
• Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy fathers brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
• Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.
• And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine.

Trees and pragmatics

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