Professional Peefer

culmaer:

linneadenvarg:

helaas–pindakaas:

linneadenvarg:

theliteraryarchitect:

veryrarelystable:

gehayi:

lukas-langs:

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)

this has been a psa

Also, because H was sometimes treated as a vowel when the grammar rules for thou/thee/thy/thine were formed,THINE can also be used for words beginning with H. For example, both “thy heart” and “thine heart” appear in Elizabethan poetry.

For consistency, however, if you’re saying “thine eyes”, make sure you also say “mine eyes” instead of “my 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.

There’s more, but that’ll do for now.

Oh wow. Reblogging for reference.

OP is confusing Old English with Early Modern English but go off I guess.

“thine eyes” in actual Old English is “þīn ēagan” :p

OP also put “old” in quotations for reason, but go off i guess

I was being facetious. I just like Old English 😁

HENCE is “from here” (from this place)
THENCE is “from there” (from that place)
WHENCE is “from where” (from what place)

thus, “a month hence, it will be over” and NOT “a month *from hence” ;

“thou camest thence” NOT “thou camest *from thence” ;

“I know whence I came, and whither I go”

and NEVER “..*from whence”

HITHER is “to here”
THITHER is “to there”
WHITHER is “to where”

but HITHERTO, THITHERTO and WHITHERTO are also attested in some cases, eg “come hither” vs “hitherto shalt thou come but no further”

HITHERWARD and THITHERWARD mean “towards this/that place”, and WHITHERWARD means “towards where” or “in what direction”