How do you say hello like Shakespeare?

Answer 1

Shakespeare wrote in English and "you" in English is "you". In plural senses you will never find another word in Shakespeare. In singular senses, as in modern devotional and religious literature, Shakespeare sometimes used the pronoun "thou" for second person singular indicative. This is especially true if the person being spoken to is a child, inferior, pet or lover.

A great example is the "closet scene" in Hamlet (Act 3 Scene 4) In this scene Hamlet always calls his mother "you" but she sometimes calls him "you" and sometimes "thou". The Ghost calls Hamlet "thou"; Hamlet calls Polonius's corpse "thou", but Polonius calls Gertrude "you".

"Thou" has its own verb forms which must be used whenever you use it. For example:

You are reading a book. Thou artreading a book.

Answer 2

Good eventide? Nope. Shakespeare never once uses this phrase. Good even? Shakespeare used it eleven times.

Shakespeare uses the word "evening" twenty-one times. He never ever uses the word "eventide".

So often when people are asked to provide words or expressions that they think Shakespeare might have used, they come up with things he never did use, but which sound "old" to the untutored ear. In fact, most of Shakespeare's words and expressions are just the same as those we use today.

Answer 3

Most of the time, he would say "you" as in "No, not I; I never gave you aught" from Hamlet or "I gave you all" from King Lear.

But sometimes (and only when the person is speaking to one and no more than one person) he uses the older pronouns "thou" and "thee". "Thou" is used when the other person is the subject of the sentence; "thee" when he is the object. So, "I love thee" but "Thou lovest me." Note that when you use "thou" the verb form ends with a "-st"

Check out Hamlet's conversation with Ophelia in 3,1 and with his mother in 3,4 and notice that they call each other "you" as much as or more than "thou".

Shakespeare used the old pronouns more than his contemporaries, who hardly ever used them, but Shakespeare was from the country and spoke a different dialect.

To use thou or thee for 'I' instead of you is a big mistake. I just means I.

Answer 4

None of the characters in Shakespeare's plays say "Hello" or "Hi" or "Whassup?" How do they greet each other, then?

If it is morning, "Good Morning", or more usually "Good Morrow" which means the same.

If it is day time, "Good Day"

If it is evening, "Good Even" which means the same as "Good Evening"

Answer 5

"Good night, Sweet Prince." Hamlet

Answer 6

Good 'morrow.

Answer 7

Good morrow

Answer 8

Hello

Answer 9

Hello

Answer 10

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