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thee

See also: Thee, thée, and the'e

thee - English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: thē, IPA: /ðiː/
  • Homophone: the (when stressed)

Pronoun

thee (second-person singular, objective case, nominative thou, reflexive thyself)

  1. (now chiefly archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou.
  2. (now chiefly archaic, dialect) Thou.

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Translations

  • Arabic: ـكَ‎ (ar) m sg (-ka), ـكِ‎ (ar) f sg (-ki), إِيَّاكَ‎ m sg (ʔiyyāka), إِيَّاكِ‎ f sg (ʔiyyāki)
  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 你 (zh) (nǐ), 汝 (zh) (rǔ), 尔 (zh)
  • Czech: tě (cs), tebe (cs), ti (cs), tobě, tebou
  • Danish: dig (da)
  • French: (informal and addressing one person; used after a preposition) toi (fr), (informal and addressing one person; used before a verb) te (fr)
  • German: dich (de), dir (de)
  • Hungarian: téged (hu)
  • Irish: thú
  • Italian: (informal and addressing one person; used after a preposition) te (it), (informal and addressing one person; used before a verb) ti (it)
  • Norwegian: deg (no)
  • Polish: cię (pl)
  • Portuguese: tu (pt), ti (pt)
  • Russian: тебя́ (ru) (tebjá) (genitive, accusative), тебе́ (ru) (tebé) (dative, prepositional), тобо́й (ru) (tobój) (instrumental)
  • Slovak: ťa, teba, ti, tebe, tebou
  • Spanish: te (es), ti (es)
  • Swedish: dig (sv)
  • Ukrainian: тебе́ (tebé), тобі́ (tobí)

Verb

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)

  1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
  2. (intransitive) To use the word thee.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • enPR: thē, IPA: /θiː/

Verb

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)

  1. (intransitive, UK, obsolete) To thrive; prosper.

Derived terms

Noun

thee (plural thees)

  1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.
  • ith
  • eth, the name of the IPA letter for this sound

Article

thee

  1. (very rare, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of the

Anagrams

thee - Acehnese

Verb

thee

  1. to be informed

thee - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /teː/
  • Hyphenation: thee

Noun

thee m (plural theeën, diminutive theetje n)

  1. tea

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: tee
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: tei
  • Negerhollands: thee, tee
  • → Caribbean Javanese: teh
  • → Dutch Low Saxon: thee
  • → Danish: te
    • → Faroese: te
  • → English: tea
    • Gullah: tea
    • Jamaican Creole: tea
    • → Abenaki: ti
    • → Chickasaw: tii'
    • → Cocopa: ṭi·
    • → Cornish: té
    • → Cree:
      • Canadian syllabics: ᑎᕀ (tiy)
      • Latin: tiy
    • → Inuktitut: ᑏ (tii)
    • → Irish: tae
    • → Maori: tī
    • → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
    • → Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
    • → Panamint: tii
    • → Telugu: టీ (ṭī)
    • → Unami: ti
    • → Welsh: te
  • → French: thé
    • Haitian Creole: te
    • Louisiana Creole: thé
    • → Armenian: թեյ (tʿey)
    • → Coeur d'Alene: liiti
    • → Corsican: tè
    • → Greek: τέϊον (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
    • → Italian: tè, té
    • → Norman: thée
    • → Occitan: tè
    • → Romansch: te, té, tè
    • → South Slavey: lidí
    • → Tiri: tee
    • → Walloon: té
  • → Galibi Carib: te
  • → German: Tee
    • → German Low German: Tee
      • Plautdietsch: Tee
    • → Estonian: tee
    • → Hunsrik: Tee
    • → Lower Sorbian: tej
    • → Romansch: te, té, tè
    • → Saterland Frisian: Tee
    • → Silesian: tyj
      • → Slovene: te (dialectal)
    • → Silesian German: Tee
    • → Vilamovian: tyy
    • → Zipser German: Tee
  • → Icelandic: te
  • → New Latin: thea
  • → Latvian: tēja
  • → Norwegian: te
  • → Sranan Tongo: te
    • → Aukan: te
    • → Saramaccan: té
  • → Swedish: te, the, thé
    • → Finnish: tee
  • → West Frisian: tee

Anagrams

thee - Middle English

Pronoun

thee

  1. Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

Verb

thee

  1. Alternative form of theen

thee - Old Irish

Adjective

thee

  1. Alternative spelling of thé: lenited form of tee (“hot”).

thee - Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /θi/

Noun

thee (plural thees)

  1. thigh

Verb

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theein, simple past theet, past participle theet)

  1. (archaic, literary) To thrive, prosper

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ði/
  • (Orkney, Shetland) IPA: /di/

Pronoun

thee (subjective case thou, reflexive thysel, possessive determiner thy)

  1. (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thee, you (2nd person singular object pronoun, informal)
  2. (Orkney, Shetland) thou, you (2nd person singular subject pronoun, informal)

Usage notes

  • Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.

thee - Yola

Pronoun

thee

  1. thee

Alternative forms

Determiner

thee

  1. thy

Derived terms

Meaning and Definition of thee
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