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THOU is the subject (Thou art…) THEE is the object (I look at thee) THY is for words beginning in a consonant (Thy dog) THINE is for words beginning in a vowel (Thine eyes)

Further to the PSA:

Thou/thee/thine is SINGULAR ONLY.

Verbs with “thou” end in -st or -est: thou canst, thou hast, thou dost, thou goest.  Exception: the verbs will, shall, are, and were, which add only -t: thou wilt, thou shalt, thou art, thou wert.

Only in the indicative, though – when saying how things are (“Thou hast a big nose”).  Not in the subjunctive, saying how things might be (“If thou go there…”) nor in the imperative, making instructions or requests (“Go thou there”).

The -eth or -th ending on verbs is EXACTLY EQUIVALENT TO THE -(e)s ENDING IN MODERN ENGLISH.

I go, thou goest, she goeth, we go, ye go, they go.

If you wouldn’t say “goes” in modern English, don’t say “goeth” in Shakespearean English.

“Goeth and getteth me a coffee” NO.  KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Usually with an imperative you put the pronoun immediately after the verb, at least once in the sentence (“Go thou” / “Go ye”).

YE is the subject (Ye are…).  YOU is the object.

Ye/you/your is both for PLURALS and for DEFERENCE, as vous in French.

For me as a German this has always been relatively easy to remember and apply. Because we had the SAME forms. Well, almost.

We have a distinction between a familiar and formal ‘you’, which is the same grammatical person as thou/you were.

Ich, du, er/sie/es -> I, you, he/she/it

Wir, ihr, sie -> we, you, they

In old German, “du” was familiar, and doesn’t it sound a lot like “thou”? And “ihr” was formal. Today, we still have the distinction, but the formal address has shifted from “ihr” to “sie”, plural.

Our pronouns also get declined according to the cases. Du, dir, dein, dich Thou, thy, thine… and accusative is the same as nominative, thou.

As you can see, pretty similar.

And then the verb conjugation. It’s also almost the same, with second person singular also ending in -st.

Du hast - thou hast

Du gehst - thou goest

Du kannst - thou canst

They’re even almost or exactly the same words!

And what paralysis is worse- that from the world or from inside?

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