thy

See also THY

English

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Pronunciation

• enPR: thī, IPA: /ðaɪ/, X-SAMPA: /DaI/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English thi, thy (“thy”), apocopated form of thin, thyn, thine (“thy", also "thine”), from Old English þīn (“thy, thine”), from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. More at thou.

Pronoun

thy

1. (archaic) That belongs to thee; the possessive form of thou.
2. (archaic or literary) your (informal); that belongs to you (singular).

Translations

possessive determiner

• Arabic: ـك (ar) (-ak, -uk(a), etc. pronunciation differs according to case or level of language formality, 'ismak - "your name"")

  Egyptian Arabic: (owner is male) ـك (-ak or k), (owner is female) ـك (-ek or ki)

• Belarusian: твой (be) (tvoj)
• Bulgarian: твой (bg) (tvoj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 你的 (cmn) (nǐde)

• Coptic: (owner is male) ⲡⲉⲕ (pek) m ⲧⲉⲕ (tek) f ⲛⲉⲕ (nek) m pl and f pl, (owner is female) ⲡⲉ (pe) m ⲧⲉ (te) f ⲛⲉ (ne) m pl and f pl
• Czech: tvůj (cs)
• Dutch: je (nl)
• Egyptian: (owner is male) 𓎡 (k), (owner is female) 𓏏 (t)
• Esperanto: cia (eo)
• French: ton (fr) m, ta (fr) f, tes (fr) pl
• Georgian: შენი (ka) ('ʃɜni)
• German: dein (de) m and n, deine (de) f, deine (de) pl
• Hebrew: שלך (he) (Sheljá) m

• Hindi: तेरा (hi) (terā), तुम्हारा (hi) (tumhārā)
• Italian: tuo (it)
• Japanese: お前の (ja) (おまえの, omae-no), 君の (ja) (きみの, kimi-no)
• Korean: 네 (ko) (ne), 너의 (ko) (neo-ui)
• Macedonian: твој (mk) (tvoj)
• Polish: twój (pl)
• Portuguese: teu (pt) m, tua (pt) f
• Russian: твой (ru) (tvoj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: твој (sh)

  Roman: tvoj (sh)

• Slovak: tvoj (sk)
• Slovene: tvój (sl)
• Spanish: tu (es), tuyo (es)
• Swedish: din (sv)
• Ukrainian: твій (uk) (tvij)
• Urdu: تیرا (ur) (terā), تمھارا (ur) (tumhārā)
• Vietnamese: của mày (vi), của em (vi)

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• Finnish: sinun + -si possessive suffix appended to the thing(s) owned
• French: ton m sg, ta f sg, tes m pl and f pl (Note: In French, the gender of this adjective agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.)

• Italian: tuo m sg, tua f sg, tuoi m pl, tue f pl (Note: In Italian, the gender of this adjective agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.)
• Polish: twój

See also

• thee
• thine
• thou
• thyself
• your

Etymology 2

Middle English thy "because, forwhy", shortened form of for-thy, forthy (“for that”), from Old English for þȳ [þe] (“because [that]”) from for (instrumental preposition) + þȳ (“by that”), instrumental case of þæt. More at the, that.

Conjunction

thy

1. (obsolete) because.

See also

• forthy
• why
• forwhy

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: use · used · began · #253: thy · less · till · next