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| Käännös | Konteksti |
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| Pronominit |
| 1. | | vanhahtava, murteellinen, kirjakieli |
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt.
- (intransitive) To use the word thou.
Substantiivit
- (dated British) A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.
- (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc.
Esimerkit
- Come, O thou Traveller unknown, / Whom still I hold, but cannot see! / My company before is gone, / And I am left alone with Thee; / With Thee all night I mean to stay, / And wrestle till the break of day.
- EPHES. V. 14. Awake thou that ſleepeth, and ariſe from the Dead, and Chriſt shall give thee Light.
- [I]ts main character, Henry (Mr. [Ewan] McGregor), is a successful, intellectual dramatist who seems quite capable of churning out fizzy, challenging works about brilliant but ambivalent revolutionaries, philosophers, etc. [...] But this cleverer-than-thou creature gets his comeuppance in "The Real Thing," showing that a very human heart – just like those possessed by the less sesquipedalian – beats beneath his fancy words.
- Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! I am come of good kin, I tell thee! (The morality play Hickscorner, ca. 1530)
- I thou thee, thou traitor! (Edward Coke to Walter Raleigh)
- If thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss[...] (Twelfth Night 3.2, Sir Toby Belch to Sir Andrew, egging him on to pick a fight with another, where one would expect one knight courteously to say to another, "If you thou him...").
- Don't thou them as thous thee! (Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children)
- "One service more, Sahib, since thou hast come so opportunely," said Lalun. "Wilt thou" – it is very nice to be thou-ed by Lalun – "take this old man across the City [...] to the Kumharsen Gate?"
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