causest

«causest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you cause — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you cause

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«causest» means «you cause», a form of «cause»: What makes something happen: "The cause of the fire was a candle." 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 causest» = «you cause».

examples

• Spite of thy charms, thou causest often pain And sore regret, of which we daily find A thousand instances attend mankind: For thou--O may it not displease the fair-- A fleeting pleasure art, but lasting care. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «cause», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; and Thou dissolvest my substance.

Trees and pragmatics

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