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When thou is the grammatical subject of a finite verb in the indicative mood, the verb form typically ends in -(e)st (e.g. "thou goest", "thou do(e)st"), but in some cases just -t (e.g., "thou art"; "thou shalt"). Originally, thou was simply the singular counterpart to the plural pronoun ye, derived from an ancient Indo-European root.
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
For example, in Spanish, nouns composed of a verb and its plural object usually have the verb first and noun object last (e.g. the legendary monster chupacabras, literally "sucks-goats", or in a more natural English formation "goatsucker") and the plural form of the object noun is retained in both the singular and plural forms of the compound ...
Ye, though, was the equivalent of 'you' in the subjective, while 'you' was the objective form. Therefore ye was the plural for thou, and you was the plural for thee. Both words (ye and you) were also used when speaking to one person, by at least the 14th century.
Sometimes, a singular V-form derives from a third-person pronoun; in German and some Nordic languages, it is the third-person plural. Some languages have separate T and V forms for both singular and plural, others have the same form and others have a T–V distinction only in the singular. Different languages distinguish pronoun uses in ...
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 ...
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Another set of forms are associated with the archaic second person singular pronoun thou, which often have the ending -est, pronounced as a full syllable, e.g. thou makest ("you make"), thou leadest ("you lead"). In some verbs, a shortened form -st appears: thou hast ("you have"), thou dost ("you do"; rhymes with must).