ye

«ye» 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, plural (you, more than one person)

meaning for a pupil

You (more than one person); the people being spoken to. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say "you" for both singular and plural.

examples

• Of all clean birds ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• "And what do they call ye?" (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• Of all clean winged things ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.20, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

you

tests

manual 3; corpora 1138 (Torah 882, tales 256, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 3; ratio 18.4 (Torah alone 294.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;
• Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
• And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'
• And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
• And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

Trees and pragmatics

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