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# ye

pronoun, subject form, plural (you, more than one person)

«ye» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

You (more than one person); the people being spoken to. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say "you" for both singular and plural.

### Examples

- Of all clean birds ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#x1)
- "And what do they call ye?" (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#x2)
- Of all clean winged things ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/#x3)

### Note

Today: you.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ye» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/Y/ye/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ye» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/ye.html) on Mova free.