Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to thee
Participle: theed
Gerund: theeing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | thee |
| you | thee |
| he;she;it | thees |
| we | thee |
| you | thee |
| they | thee |
Perfect
| I | have theed |
| you | have theed |
| he;she;it | has theed |
| we | have theed |
| you | have theed |
| they | have theed |
Past
| I | theed |
| you | theed |
| he;she;it | theed |
| we | theed |
| you | theed |
| they | theed |
Pluperfect
| I | had theed |
| you | had theed |
| he;she;it | had theed |
| we | had theed |
| you | had theed |
| they | had theed |
Future
| I | will thee |
| you | will thee |
| he;she;it | will thee |
| we | will thee |
| you | will thee |
| they | will thee |
Future Perfect
| I | will have theed |
| you | will have theed |
| he;she;it | will have theed |
| we | will have theed |
| you | will have theed |
| they | will have theed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | thee |
| you | thee |
| he;she;it | thee |
| we | thee |
| you | thee |
| they | thee |
Perfect
| I | have theed |
| you | have theed |
| he;she;it | have theed |
| we | have theed |
| you | have theed |
| they | have theed |
Imperfect
| I | theed |
| you | theed |
| he;she;it | theed |
| we | theed |
| you | theed |
| they | theed |
Pluperfect
| I | had theed |
| you | had theed |
| he;she;it | had theed |
| we | had theed |
| you | had theed |
| they | had theed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would thee |
| you | would thee |
| he;she;it | would thee |
| we | would thee |
| you | would thee |
| they | would thee |
Perfect
| I | would have theed |
| you | would have theed |
| he;she;it | would have theed |
| we | would have theed |
| you | would have theed |
| they | would have theed |
Imperative
| you | thee |
| we | Let's thee |
| you | thee |
Verbs conjugated like 'thee'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'thee'
tee,
the,
theme,
thew,
tree,
cheek,
cheep,
cheer,
chef,
chese,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
þe (accusative and dative singular of
þu "thou"), from P.Gmc.
*theke (cf. O.Fris.
thi, M.Du.
di, O.H.G.
dih, Ger.
dich, O.N.
þik, Norw.
deg, Goth.
þuk), from PIE
*tege-. A brief history of the second person pronoun in Eng. can be found here. The verb meaning "to use the pronoun 'thee' to someone" is recorded from 1662, from the rise of Quakerism (see thou).
"This was the Bottom upon which the Quakers first set up, to run down all worldly Honour ...; to Thee and Thou; to call no Man Master, or Lord, and not to take off their Hats, or Bow to any." [Charles Leslie, "The Snake in the Grass," 1696]
2. From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative þec), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'die'.
Verbs referencing "thee"
German, old spelling
gedeihen.
Sample Sentences
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What! doſt thou not believe that God's Thouing and theeing was and is ſound Speech? [...] And theeing & Thouing of one ſingle Perſon was the language of Chriſt Jeſus, and the Holy Prophets and Apoſtles both under the Diſpenſations of Law and Goſpel, [...] [1677, William Gibson, “An Answer to John Cheyney’s Pamphlet Entituled The Shibboleth of Quakerism”, in The Life of God, which is the Light and Salvation of Men, Exalted: […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 134:]
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The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same. [2006, Julian Dibbell, chapter 5, in Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN:]
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You want to hear the word of God, and be challenged to go out and change the world. Instead, you are, for the fifth Sunday in a row, mewling on about purple-headed mountains (which is a bit of an imaginative stretch, since you live in East Anglia) and "theeing" and "thouing" all over the place. [2009, David R. Keeston [pseudonym; Alan D. Jenkins], “Seeing God in the Ordinary”, in The Hitch Hikers’ Guide to the Gospel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 39:]