tu — meaning in English
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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.
- thy determiner An old-fashioned or poetic word for "your," used with a singular person you are addressing.
- you pronoun The person or people being spoken or written to.
- your determiner Belonging to, or associated with, the person or people being spoken to.
Senses
tu is used for these senses in English:
- thine (archaic, EME) Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
- thou (archaic, dialectal, literary, religion) . [chiefly up to early 17th c.]
- thy (archaic, EME, dialectal, literary) : that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
- you The individual or group spoken or written to.
- you (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]
- your Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
thine — full definition
- det Archaic form of "your", used before a vowel sound.
- pron Archaic form of "yours".
thou — full definition
- pronoun An old-fashioned or poetic word for "you," used when speaking to one person.
- noun A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch, used in engineering.
- noun Informal shorthand for "a thousand," especially of money.