buildest

«buildest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you build — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you build

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«buildest» means «you build», a form of «build»: To build is to make something by putting parts together, like a house, a tower or a model. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou buildest» = «you build».

examples

• When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. (Torah DEU.22.8, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «build», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «buildest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.