The or the is a definite article--it refers to a particular or specific thing, not to just any example of the same thing--
Where is the pizza I was saving for later?
What is the phone number of the pizzeria on the corner?
The is usually pronounced to rhyme with "we" when it comes before a vowel (open-mouthed) sound--it is spelled the same, however--
I liked the old pizzeria better.
I want the onion and mushroom pizza.
Thee or thee is an old-fashioned form of "you". We don't say thee anymore, except in movies about long ago, and perhaps in poems or song lyrics. It is still in old books and poems, since many people prefer to read old things as they were written, instead of a modernized version--
" of thee I sing..."
"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty..."
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