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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 Baháʼí Faith, the terms thou and thee are also used.
plural we us our ours 2nd person singular informal thou thee thy/thine [# 1] thine plural informal ye you your yours formal you 3rd person singular he/she/it him/her/it his/her/his (it) [# 2] his/hers/his [# 2] plural they them their theirs
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 ...
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 ]
An archaic set of second-person pronouns used for singular reference is thou, thee, thyself, thy, thine, which are still used in religious services and can be seen in older works, such as Shakespeare's—in such texts, ye and the you set of pronouns are used for plural reference, or with singular reference as a formal V-form. [7]
So the word that we spell "the" was spelled in early English as φe. When printing came along, the rune was replaced with a lower case y, but the pronunciation was still "the." When ye is a pronoun, it was a phonetic spelling of "thee," so not a different word from thee, just a different transcription.pagnol 01:08, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
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Plural First we we: us / ous us: ure[n] / our[e] / ures / urne our: oures ours: us self / ous silue ourselves: Second ȝe / ye you : eow / [ȝ]ou / ȝow / gu / you you: eower / [ȝ]ower / gur / [e]our your: youres yours: Ȝou self / ou selue yourselves: Third From Old English heo / he: his / heo[m] heore / her-- From Old Norse þa / þei / þeo ...