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Print/export Download as PDF; ... thou thee thy/thine [# 1] thine plural informal ye you your yours formal you 3rd person singular
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 ...
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]
you (thee) þi / ti your (thy) þin / þyn yours (thine) þeself / þi seluen yourself (thyself) Third Masculine he he: him [a] / hine [b] him: his / hisse / hes his: his / hisse his: him-seluen himself: Feminine sche[o] / s[c]ho / ȝho she: heo / his / hie / hies / hire her: hio / heo / hire / heore her - hers: heo-seolf herself: Neuter hit it ...
Thou is the nominative form; the oblique/objective form is thee (functioning as both accusative and dative); the possessive is thy (adjective) or thine (as an adjective before a vowel or as a possessive pronoun); and the reflexive is thyself.
thou: thee: thyself: thine: thy thine (before vowel) Plural Standard you you yourselves yours your Archaic: ye: you: yourselves: yours: your: Nonstandard: ye you all y'all youse etc. (see above) ye you all y'all youse: yeerselves y'all's (or y'alls) selves: yeers y'all's (or y'alls) yeer y'all's (or y'alls) Third-person Singular Masculine he ...
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Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.