old english...?

Question

if you rewrite "its never your fault" by just chainging 'your' whould it be:
its never ye fault
its never thou fault
its never thy fault
-or-
its never thee fault

and do you say ye's, yes, or just leave it at ye...( same with the other words.)?

Answer 1

Eight different pronouns refer to oneself (as we'll see), and a similar eight (with male, female, and neuter versions) refer to "that fellow over there." Older English also had eight for "the person I'm talking to," but modern English has reduced this to only three, each doing double-duty .

Here's how they work. Older forms are in brackets.

Subject:
1) singular: I go, he goes, and you go ["THOU goest"].
2) plural: We go, they go, and you go [used to be "YE goest"].

Object:
3) singular: Tom saw me, and saw him, and saw you ["saw THEE"].
4) plural: Tom saw us, and saw them, and saw you two ["saw YOU two].

Possession:
5-6) singular: My book is mine, his/her book is his/hers, and your book is yours ["THY book is THINE"].
7-8) plural: Our book is ours, their book is theirs, and your book is yours ["YOUR book is YOURS"].

Answer 2

You would write "it's never thy fault" or "it's never the fault of thee." And it wouldn't be Old English either--the use of "thee" and "thy" are much more recent (considering that BEOWULF is in Old English, Chaucer in Middle English, and Shakespeare pretty much in Early Modern English).

Answer 3

It's never THY fault.

And ye is both singular and plural ; the same as you. So unless you're a real rube, no 's' is used. You don't write or say you's or yous or youse unless you are writing in dialect.

Answer 4

It's never thine fault.

Answer 5

It should probably be "thine fault."