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Complete Definition of "thou"

wikipedia|dab=thou (disambiguation)|thou
English

rank|asked|soon|almost|217|thou|full|country|course

Etymology 1
OE. term|þu|þū

Pronunciation
enPR|thou, IPA|/ða�/, SAMPA|/DaU?/
audio|en-us-thou.ogg|Audio (US)
:rhymes|a�

Pronoun
wikipedia
infl|en|second person pronoun|second person singular nominative case||plural|ye or you|objective case|thee|reflexive|thyself|possessive determiner|thy|possessive pronoun|thine

  1. context|archaic|or|dialectal you (singular informal)

Usage notes
term|thou|Thou is used with the archaic second-person singular of verbs, which usually ends in term|-est, as in, for example, �Lovest thou me?� Exceptions (forms without s) include term|art#Verb|art (of term|be), term|shalt (of term|shall) and term|wilt (of term|will#Verb|will).

Translations
trans-top|singular informal form of "you"
Arabic: ARchar|أ�ت (�ínta) m, ARchar|أ�ت (�ínti) f
Catalan: tu#Catalan|tu
Chinese: 你 (n�)
Czech: t+|cs|ty
Dutch: gij (archaic or dialectal), jij
Esperanto: t-|eo|ci|xs=Esperanto
Faroese: t-|fo|tú|xs=Faroese
Finnish: t+|fi|sinä
French: t+|fr|tu|m|f
German: t+|de|du, t-|de|Du
Hebrew: �ת� (atá) m, �ת (at) f
Hungarian: t+|hu|te
Icelandic: t+|is|þú
Irish: t-|ga|tú|xs=Irish
trans-mid
Italian: t+|it|tu
Japanese: � (���, nanji), � (��, kimi)
Latin: t+|la|tu
Norwegian: t+|no|du
Ojibwe: giin
Old Church Slavonic: ��� (ty)
Persian: FAchar|ت� (tu)
Polish: t+|pl|ty
Portuguese: t+|pt|tu
Russian: �� (ty)
Scottish Gaelic: thu, tu#Scottish Gaelic|tu
Slovene: t+|sl|ti
Spanish: t+|es|tú|m|f
Swedish: t+|sv|du
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Verb
en-verb

  1. transitive To address (a person) using the pronoun term|thou.
  2. intransitive To use the word term|thou.

Etymology 2
Shortened from term|thousand and term|thousandth.

Pronunciation
enPR|thou, IPA|/θa�/, SAMPA|/TaU?/
:rhymes|a�

Noun
en-noun

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

Synonyms
mil qualifier|US

Noun
en-noun|pl=thou

  1. slang A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pound sterling|pounds sterling, etc.

Category:English heteronyms

ang:thou
el:thou
fr:thou
io:thou
it:thou
hu:thou
ja:thou
pl:thou
pt:thou
fi:thou
sv:thou
te:thou
vi:thou
tr:thou
zh:thou

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