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# thou

«thou» 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, subject form, one person

### meaning for a pupil

You, used as the subject when speaking to one person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thou/#m1)

### how it differs from today

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

### examples

- And thou shalt make settings of gold; (Torah EXO.28.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thou/#x1)
- "Falada, Falada, there thou art hanging!" (Grimm's Fairy Stories) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thou/#x2)
- And who canst thou place before the only one? (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/thou/#x3)

### primary record

thou

### tests

manual 3; corpora 3290 (Torah 1547, tales 1732, Sefer Yetzirah 11); EWT 1; ratio 124.2 (Torah alone 1203.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.50/)
- [And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.69/)
- [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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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