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# ye

«ye» 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, plural (you, more than one person)

### meaning for a pupil

You (more than one person); the people being spoken to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say "you" for both singular and plural.

### examples

- Of all clean birds ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#x1)
- "And what do they call ye?" (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#x2)
- Of all clean winged things ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#x3)

### primary record

you

### tests

manual 3; corpora 1138 (Torah 882, tales 256, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 3; ratio 18.4 (Torah alone 294.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.64/)
- [Only flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.221/)
- [And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.224/)
- [And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.939/)
- [And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1064/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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