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Hi /lit/. Non native English speaker here. Could you tell me in what occasions the Old English pronouns thou, thee and thine were used?

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>> No.795007

English used to regularly use very polite pronouns - they were usually used with someone higher than you, or not familiar with you.

>> No.795009

Thou = Tu

>> No.795011

thou is the singular or familiar form of "you", just like tu in French, and thee is like toi, thine like ton/ta.

>> No.795015

>>795007

This one is wrong

>>795011
>>795009

These ones are right

>> No.795017

>>795007
This is true, but "thou" was not the polite form, it was the familiar form.

>> No.795042

>>795011
Me again. On reflection, "thy" is like ton/ta. "Thine" is like "la tienne", except it's also used in place of "thy" when preceding a vowel.
E.g.,
> Giv'st me a drink of thy Coke.
> Yon penis is larger than thine.
> Thine arse doth smell most foul.