"Tis" meaning and usage

[maral55]

Hi


Does the word "Tis" means "it is" and is it an archaic term? and I wanted to know how I can use it in my sentence.

and what's the meaning of 'Tis' in this sentence

"Tis sorry I am to hear it."
"Tis, thanking you I am"



Thanks for your answer.

 

[Neillythere]

Hi maral55

see AskOxford: 'tis
'tis
• contraction chiefly literary it is.

'Tis indeed archaic.
'Tis common in Shakespearean langage.
Wouldn't use it in modern speech.

"Tis sorry I am to hear it." It is sorry that I am, to hear it (I'm sorry to hear it).
"Tis, thanking you I am" It is thanking you I am (I am, indeed, thanking you).

Hope this helps
NT

 

[Offroad]

have a look at this thread:
https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/88313-tis.html
;-)

 

[BobK]

Hi


...
and what's the meaning of 'Tis' in this sentence

"Tis sorry I am to hear it."
"Tis [no comma] thanking you I am"



Thanks for your answer.

Just to underline a point made in the other thread, constructions like these two (without the comma in the 2nd one) are very common in Irish English, as is the version with a subject (rather than the impersonal 'it'): 'A pity it was to see them so hungry' (='It was a pity...' [in a real sense - it moved the speaker to feel pity]). I wouldn't be surprised if it owed something to the syntax of Irish Gaelic - about which I know nothing :-(

b

 

[maral55]

Just to underline a point made in the other thread, constructions like these two (without the comma in the 2nd one) are very common in Irish English, as is the version with a subject (rather than the impersonal 'it'): 'A pity it was to see them so hungry' (='It was a pity...' [in a real sense - it moved the speaker to feel pity]). I wouldn't be surprised if it owed something to the syntax of Irish Gaelic - about which I know nothing :-(

b

Sorry I just checked the setence and realized that the comma is here.

"Tis thanking you , I am."


and another question, you mean that Irish people talk that way now?

 

[BobK]

Yep - even in quite formal situations.

b