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Is "thou" third-person though? I never use it, so it might be. I dunno.

It's second-person. The third person singular pronoun is "it".

It's the informal version of 'you', so it is second-person singular.

You can use 'thou' to force Google translate to translate from English to the informal form of another language. Otherwise, it will give you the formal translation. This is safer if you don't know the social/cultural implications of using the informal form (it can be insulting or inappropriate in some contexts), but it's not always what you want.

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