Thee vs. You — What's the Difference?

Archaic or dialect form of you, as the singular object of a verb or preposition

In Modern English, you is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers.

Objective and reflexive case of thou.

Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing

Thou.

Used to refer to any person in general

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.

(object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.

(intransitive) To use the word thee.

(To) yourselves, (to) yourself.

To thrive; prosper.

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)

The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound lang=en in Pitman shorthand.

(subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)

To thrive; to prosper.

(subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)

The objective case of thou. See Thou.

(indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).

The individual or group spoken or written to.

Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.

(transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.