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#413 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

thou, you (archaic familiar singular)

Examples

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Thou art my only friend.

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I see thee in the garden.

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Thy house is bigger than mine.

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Wilt thou come with us?

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He gave thee the letter.

is the most famous word in Esperanto that nobody uses. Zamenhof put it in the dictionary as a familiar singular, then advised learners to leave it alone, and the language duly settled on for one person and for a crowd, formal and intimate alike. What survives is a handful of translations where the original leaned on a tu/vous split and the translator felt the loss, plus the odd poem. Learn to recognise it and its possessive , and then say like everybody else. Using at a congress will sound less intimate than eccentric.

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This word is part of lesson 9.