what is thee,thou & thy in Shakespearean language?

Answer 1

I love thee - I love YOU (You in Predicate)
Thou art crazy- YOU are crazy (You in Subject)
I love thy smile- I love YOUR smile (Posessive Prononoun You)

Answer 2

Another thing to keep in mind is that thee/thou/thy were considered familiar, or informal words, while you/your were formal. If you were talking to the King, you'd use "you." If you were talking to your husband, you'd probably say "thy."

But it also depends on the situation - if you want to put someone down, mock them, or remind them of their place, you'd you thee/thou, and the opposite is true as well. If your sister is threatening to kill you and you're pleading for your life, you'd probably use you/your.

You can figure out a lot about what's happening in a scene by noticing when a character switches from one to another.

Answer 3

The word thou (pronounced IPA [ðaʊ]) is the mostly archaic second person singular pronoun in English, having been replaced in almost all contexts by you. Thou is the nominative form; the oblique/objective form is thee (functioning as both accusative and dative), and the possesive is thy or thine. Almost all verbs following "thou" have the endings -st or -est; e.g., "thou goest". In Middle English, thou was sometimes abbreviated by writing a Wynn-shaped letter Thorn with a small u above it.

Originally, "thou" was simply the singular counterpart to the plural pronoun "ye," descended from an ancient Indo-European root. In imitation of the French practice, "thou" was later used to express familiarity, intimacy, or disrespect. After "thou" fell out of fashion, it was primarily retained in fixed rituals, so that it eventually came to connote formality and solemnity. "Thou" persists, sometimes in altered form, in regional dialects of England and Scotland.[1] However, in standard modern English, thou continues to be used only in religious contexts, in literature that seeks to capture an archaic sense of formality, and in certain fixed phrases such as "holier than thou" and "fare thee well." "You" has replaced both "thou" and "ye" in standard English, but the distinction between singular and plural is colloquially expressed in North America by singular "you" and such plural pronouns as "y'all", "yinz", and along with some dialects of England, "youse".

THY or Thy can be:-

The genitive case of the English personal pronoun thou.

Answer 4

thee means me, thou means you, and thy means mine

Answer 5

you, you and your with thou being what one would say to his/her "better"