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# thee

«thee» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you

### part of speech

pronoun, object form, one person

### meaning for a pupil

You, used when you are the one being spoken to and are the object of the verb or preposition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thee/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say you for both the subject and object forms.

### examples

- Asshur shall carry thee away captive. (Torah NUM.24.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thee/#x1)
- "I be come to see thee." (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thee/#x2)
- Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee." Rabbi Luria, gives the Hebrew version which I have translated. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thee/#x3)

### primary record

you

### tests

manual 3; corpora 1938 (Torah 982, tales 945, Sefer Yetzirah 11); EWT 0; ratio 219.5 (Torah alone 2291.5); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.71/)
- [Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.72/)
- [Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.79/)
- ['Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.211/)
- [for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.349/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.