thine
Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determinerSecond-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
» Mine eyes gaze at thine metallic chalice.
Мои глаза смотрят на твой металлический кубок. — xmoffx
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1 senses(Early, Modern, archaic)Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
dein
твойtvoj
твійtvij
Examples
18 sentencesMine eyes gaze at thine metallic chalice.
ruМои глаза смотрят на твой металлический кубок. — xmoffx
Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.
I but prefer to live in a different world, not in thine.
Translations
9 languagesOrigin
From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from PFrom 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.
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