You vs. Thou

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Youpronoun

(object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.

Youpronoun

(To) yourselves, (to) yourself.

Youpronoun

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)

Youpronoun

(subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)

Youpronoun

(subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)

Youpronoun

(indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).

Youdeterminer

The individual or group spoken or written to.

Youdeterminer

Used before epithets for emphasis.

Youverb

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.

Youpronoun

The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.

Youpronoun

used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing

Youpronoun

used to refer to the person being addressed together with other people regarded in the same class

Youpronoun

used in exclamations to address one or more people

Youpronoun

your

Youpronoun

used to refer to any person in general

You

In Modern English, you is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers.

Thoupronoun

you singular nominative case

Thouverb

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt.

Thouverb

(intransitive) To use the word thou.

Thounoun

A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.

Thounoun

(slang) A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc.

Thouadverb

misspelling of though

Thouconjunction

misspelling of though

Thoupronoun

The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.

Thouverb

To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.

Thouverb

To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.

Thounoun

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Thoupronoun

Compare with thee

Thounoun

a thousand

Thounoun

one thousandth of an inch.

Thou

The word thou is a second-person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by you.

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