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In many of the Quranic translations, particularly those compiled by the Ahmadiyya, the terms thou and thee are used. One particular example is The Holy Quran - Arabic Text and English translation, translated by Maulvi Sher Ali. [32] In the English translations of the scripture of the BaháΚΌí Faith, the terms thou and thee are also used.
For example, ten pounds becomes ten pound; five miles becomes five-mile. [61] The word us is often used in place of me or in the place of our (e.g. we should put us names on us property). [62] Us is invariably pronounced with a final [z] rather than an [s]. [45] Use of the singular second-person pronoun thou (often written tha) and thee.
The pronouns thou and thee have survived in many rural Northern dialects. In some case, these allow the distinction between formality and familiarity to be maintained, while in others thou is a generic second-person singular, and you (or ye) is restricted to the plural. Even when thou has died out
The Old English and Early Middle English second person pronouns thou and ye (with variants) were used for singular and plural reference respectively with no T–V distinction. The earliest entry in the Oxford English Dictionary for ye as a V pronoun in place of the singular thou exists in a Middle English text of 1225 composed in 1200. [16]
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The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...
Personal pronouns in Early Modern English; Nominative Oblique Genitive Possessive; 1st person singular I me my/mine [# 1]: mine plural we us our ours 2nd person
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God; He whose word cannot be broken Formed thee for his own abode; On the Rock of Ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, Thou may'st smile at all thy foes. Here is a German example, from Goethe's verse: Dämmrung senkte sich von oben, Schon ist alle ...