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Thou

The word thou (/ðaʊ/) is a second-person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by the word you, although it remains in use in certain traditional dialects of Northern England and Scotland (also pronounced /ðuː/ or /ðɑː/ today). Thou is the nominative form; the oblique/objective form is thee…

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Edges212
Triples205
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00939
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related to General and cited references · 37
Thou → Albert, American Speech, Baugh, Blackwell Publishing, Book, Case Assignment, Change, Coordinate Constructions, David, Dialects, England, English, English Language, Form, Function, Graham, Historical Study, History, Influence, ISBN
related to Further reading · 33
Thou → Albert, America, Brown, Cambridge UPWales, Catholic University, English, English Language, Essential Readings, Geraldine, Gilman, Haskell House, ISBN, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Katie, Kenneth Muir, New Companion, OCLC, Personal Pronouns, Power, Present-Day English
related to Use as a verb · 24
Thou → Additionally, Although, Crown, De/Dem/Deres, Dutch, England, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Many European, Norwegian, Polish, Raleigh, Romanian, Russian, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Walter Raleigh, Spanish
related to Etymology · 22
Thou → Armenian, Bengali, Continental Scandinavian, German, Germanic, Greek, Grimm's, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European, Irish, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Old English, Old Norse, Persian, Proto-Indo-European, Romance
related to Persistence of second-person singular · 19
Thou → Anglo-Welsh Dialects, Clwyd, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham, Dyfed, English, In, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Powys, Staffordshire, Such, The, The Survey, Throughout, West Glamorgan, Westmorland, Yorkshire
related to General decline in Early Modern English · 18
Thou → British English, By, England, English Tongue, Fairly, Friends, Grammar, However, In, It, Lichfield, London, Reasons, Samuel Johnson, Scotland, Society, Staffordshire, West Midlands
related to External links · 17
Thou → DayYou/Thou, Don, English Tongue, Formal Prayer, Grammar, Jr, LDS, Norton, Note, Samuel Johnson, Seamus CooneyThe Language, Shakespeare's Grammar Archived, Shakespeare's Work Archived, The Maven's Word, Wayback Machine, Wayback MachineThou, Yorkshire Archived
related to Modern colloquial replacements · 9
Thou → Australians, England, English-speaking, Ireland, Many, Southern United States, The, United States, Ye
related to Old and Middle English · 9
Thou → Beginning, English, Eventually, For, French, In French, In Old English, The, This
related to Conjugation · 6
Thou → English, In, The, These, Typical, Verb

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english use singular used form pronoun plural thee also forms ye england dialects person modern often standard verb word language

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Thouis anominative form0.90text
Thouis agrammatical subject of a finite verb in the indicative mood0.90text
Godinstance ofit has nevertheless been used by more recent writers to address exalted beings0.80text
a skylarkinstance ofit has nevertheless been used by more recent writers to address exalted beings0.80text
Achillesinstance ofit has nevertheless been used by more recent writers to address exalted beings0.80text
and even The Mighty Thorinstance ofit has nevertheless been used by more recent writers to address exalted beings0.80text
Thourelated to ConjugationVerb0.60section
Thourelated to ConjugationThese0.60section
Thourelated to ConjugationTypical0.60section
Thourelated to ConjugationThe0.60section
Thourelated to ConjugationEnglish0.60section
Thourelated to ConjugationIn0.60section

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