droppest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you drop

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«droppest» means «you drop», a form of «drop»: To drop is to let something fall from your hand; what you drop is lost to you. 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 droppest» = «you drop».

examples

• "My lord King!" says the Queen, "tell me wherefore thou droppest bitter tears?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «drop», 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

Trees and pragmatics

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