camest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you came

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

meaning for a pupil

«camest» means «you came», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here! 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 camest» = «you came».

examples

• And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou?' And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.' (Torah GEN.16.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world! (The Jungle Book) tree →
• Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. (Torah EXO.34.18, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «came», a verb of EWT); corpora 11 (Torah 9, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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