Hi,
Please, could you tell me when we use these pronouns:thy, thou, thee.Don’t come in my mind more.Could you tell me when to use these words, and is there a specific usage of them? And please, correct my mistakes too.
Thank you in advance,
Mojra
Hi Mojra,
The short answer is ‘you don’t’. At least not any more.
‘Thou’ is a second person singular pronoun, but it’s largely archaic now. You will find it in religious texts to some extent, put it has largely been replaced by ‘you’.
‘Thy’ or ‘Thine’ is the possessive form of ‘thou’, and ‘thee’ is the objective case. Again, none of these are used much outside of formal religious context, or literature that is deliberately trying to mimic old fashioned language.
Today, ‘thou’ = ‘you’, ‘thy/thine’=‘yours’, and ‘thee’=‘you’ (objective).
There are a few fixed phrases that still retain this old language, such as ‘holier than thou’, or ‘fare thee well’.