English
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/
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Determiner
thine
- (archaic, Early Modern) Second-person singular 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.
Derived terms
Translations
possessive determiner
- Belarusian: твой (tvoj)
- Bulgarian: твой (tvoj)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 你的 (zh) (nǐde)
- Czech: tvůj (cs)
- Danish: din (da)
- 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)
- Turkish: senin (tr)
- Ukrainian: твій (uk) (tvij)
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Pronoun
thine
- (archaic, Early Modern) Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.
1996, Weird Al Yankovic, “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)
- Turkish: senin (tr)
- Ukrainian: твій (uk) (tvij)
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See also
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
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”)