お前 — meaning in English

English meaning

• thine det Archaic form of "your", used before a vowel sound.
• thou pronoun An old-fashioned or poetic word for "you," used when speaking to one person.
• you pronoun The person or people being spoken or written to.

Senses

お前 is used for these senses in English:

• thine (archaic, EME) Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.
• thou (archaic, dialectal, literary, religion) . [chiefly up to early 17th c.]
• you (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

thine — full definition

1. det Archaic form of "your", used before a vowel sound.
2. pron Archaic form of "yours".

thou — full definition

1. pronoun An old-fashioned or poetic word for "you," used when speaking to one person.
2. noun A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch, used in engineering.
3. noun Informal shorthand for "a thousand," especially of money.

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