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What does thou mean?
What does thou mean?
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"Thou" is from Old English, meaning "you". It can usually be heard as "thou hast" (which basically means "you have"). A common thing I've heard with this is "Thou hast forsaken me"
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@shg94 Yes!
"Thy" is yet another way to say "you"
"Thine" is another form of the word "thy"
"Thy" can be "To thyself be true" or "To thine own self be true"
It can also be referred to as meaning "one", but mostly, it means "you" as well.
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You mostly see Old English being used in old texts and playwrights from Shakespeare(Like Hamet) and the like.Or at least that's what it's famous from, to my knowledge.
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To be pedantic, that's technically Early Modern English. Old English is what Beowulf was written in (:
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