The Conversation: Thou Shalt Not Steal: new Stan series is a perversely funny road trip through Central Australia
Stan Original’s newest series is coming to smaller screens, having premiered its first three episodes in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. Thou Shalt Not Steal follows Aboriginal ...
Thou Shalt Not Steal: new Stan series is a perversely funny road trip through Central Australia
Thou requires a specific form of the verb, which always ends in - ( (e)s)t (e.g., thou art, thou wert, thou canst, thou thinkest, etc.), so the first sentence is not grammatical. The rest are fine. Since they are so archaic, however, you should be aware that it’s frequently not just a matter of substituting one word for another – in order for it to seem natural, you’d have to emulate ...
Thee, thou, and thine (or thy) are Early Modern English second person singular pronouns. Thou is the subject form (nominative), thee is the object form, and thy/thine is the possessive form. Before they all merged into the catch-all form you, English second person pronouns distinguished between nominative and objective, as well as between singular and plural (or formal): thou - singular ...
There are two important distinctions. The first is that thou (and thy, thine, thyself) is second-person singular. Ye is second-person plural. You is second-person of either singular and plural (originally only a case of plural). As such, you can use thou only of one person. Ye would generally be used for either the plural, but due to the "T-V distinction" (named for the Latin tu and vos) ye ...