thine

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: thīn, IPA^(key): /ðaɪn/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪn

Determiner

thine

(archaic) Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:31:
  Thine oxe shall be slaine before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shall bee giuen vnto thine enemies, and thou shalt haue none to rescue them.
- 1895, “America the Beautiful”, Katharine Lee Bates (lyrics), Samuel A. Ward (music):
  Thine alabaster cities gleam / Undimmed by human tears!

Derived terms

to thine own self be true

Translations

possessive determiner

Belarusian: твой (tvoj)
Bulgarian: твой (tvoj)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 你的 (zh) (nǐde)
Czech: tvůj (cs)
Dutch: jouw (nl), je (nl); (dated or Belgium) uw (nl); (obsolete) dijn (nl)
Egyptian:
Late Egyptian:

(pꜣy .k m),

(tꜣy .k f),

(nꜣy .k pl) (owner is male),

(pꜣy .ṯ m),

(tꜣy .ṯ f),

(nꜣy .ṯ pl) (owner is female)

Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian:

(.k) (owner is male),

(.ṯ) (owner is female)
Esperanto: cia (eo), ciaj (eo) pl
Finnish: sinun (fi)
French: ton (fr) m, ta (fr) f, tes (fr) m pl or f pl
Georgian: შენი (šeni)
German: dein (de)
Italian: tuo (it) m, tua (it) f, tuoi (it) m pl, tue (it) f pl
Japanese: 汝の (nanji no)
Macedonian: твој (tvoj)
Polish: twój (pl)
Portuguese: teu (pt) m
Romanian: tău (ro) m or n, ta (ro) f, tăi m pl, tale (ro) f pl or n pl
Russian: твой (ru) (tvoj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: твој

Roman: tvoj
Slovak: tvoj (sk)
Slovene: tvój (sl)
Spanish: tu (es), tuyo (es) m, tuya (es) f
Swedish: din (sv)
Ukrainian: твій (uk) (tvij)

Pronoun

thine

(archaic) Singular second person possessive pronoun; yours
- 1996, Weird Al Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Amish Paradise”, in Bad Hair Day:
  But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine / Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

Translations

possessive pronoun

Arabic: (belonging to one person) لَك m (lak), لَكِ f (laki)
Egyptian Arabic: (male owner) لك (lik), بتاعك m (betaʕak), بتاعتاك f (betaʕtak), بتوعاك pl (betoʕak); (female owner) لك (liki), بتاعك m (betaʕik), بتاعتاك f (betaʕtik), بتوعاك pl (betoʕik)
Belarusian: твой (tvoj)
Bulgarian: твой (tvoj)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 你的 (zh) (nǐde)
Coptic:
Bohairic: ⲫⲱⲕ m (phōk), ⲑⲱⲕ f (thōk), ⲛⲟⲩⲕ pl (nouk) (owner is male); ⲫⲱ m (phō), ⲑⲱ f (thō), ⲛⲟⲩ pl (nou) (owner is female)

Sahidic: ⲡⲱⲕ m (pōk), ⲧⲱⲕ f (tōk), ⲛⲟⲩⲕ pl (nouk) (owner is male); ⲡⲱ m (pō), ⲧⲱ f (tō), ⲛⲟⲩ pl (nou) (owner is female)
Czech: tvůj (cs)
Dutch: de jouwe; (dated or Belgium) de uwe; (obsolete) de dijne
Finnish: sinun (fi)
French: le tien (fr) m, la tienne (fr) f, les tiens (fr) m pl, les tiennes (fr) f pl
Georgian: შენი (šeni)
German: deiner (de), der deine
Gothic: 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 m (þeins)
Hungarian: tiéd (hu)
Italian: il tuo m sg, la tua f sg, i tuoi m pl, le tue f pl
Japanese: お前の (ja) (おまえの, omae no)
Macedonian: твој (tvoj)
Old English: þīn
Polish: twój (pl)
Portuguese: teu (pt) m, seu (pt) m
Romanian: al tău, a ta, ai tăi, ale tale
Russian: твой (ru) (tvoj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: твој

Roman: tvoj
Slovak: tvoj (sk)
Slovene: tvój (sl)
Spanish: el tuyo m, la tuya f
Swedish: din (sv)
Ukrainian: твій (uk) (tvij)

See also

Anagrams

Neith, Thein, Thien, nithe, thein

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

thine

Lenited form of tine.

Middle English

Determiner

thine (subjective pronoun þou)

Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

Pronoun

thine (subjective þou)

Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

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