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thine

determinerpronounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ðaɪn//

Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).

determiner

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    archaicSecond-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).

    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.

    Thine alabaster cities gleam / Undimmed by human tears!

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.

pronoun

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    archaicSecond-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.

    But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine / Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).