canst

«canst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: can — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

can

part of speech

verb, second person singular of can (used with thou)

meaning for a pupil

Are able to, used with thou. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say can.

examples

• And He said: 'Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.' (Torah EXO.33.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• I cannot run as thou canst." (Grimm's Fairy Stories) tree →
• And who canst thou place before the only one? (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →

primary record

can

tests

manual 5; corpora 78 (Torah 4, tales 71, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 0; ratio 8.8 (Torah alone 9.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And He said: 'Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.'
• And man boweth down, and man lowereth himself; and Thou canst not bear with them.
• How canst thou say: 'I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim'?
• 'If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?
• not to many peoples of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, whose words thou canst not understand.

Trees and pragmatics

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