couldest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

could

part of speech

verb, past tense of can, with thou

meaning for a pupil

Was able to, with "thou" as the subject. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "could" with "you."

examples

• "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?" (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →

tests

manual 5; corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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