thou

«thou» 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, subject form, one person

meaning for a pupil

You, used as the subject when speaking to one person. tree →

how it differs from today

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

examples

• And thou shalt make settings of gold; (Torah EXO.28.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Falada, Falada, there thou art hanging!" (Grimm's Fairy Stories) tree →
• And who canst thou place before the only one? (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →

primary record

thou

tests

manual 3; corpora 3290 (Torah 1547, tales 1732, Sefer Yetzirah 11); EWT 1; ratio 124.2 (Torah alone 1203.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
• And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'
• 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.

Trees and pragmatics

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