forgettest
kind
archaic form
modern equivalent
you forget
part of speech
verb, old form used with thou
meaning for a pupil
«forgettest» means «you forget», a form of «forget»: Not to remember something: a fact, a name, a word. 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 forgettest» = «you forget».
examples
- Thou knowest how to borrow, but thou forgettest to repay!" Then the wife of the poor man burst into tears. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
- ‘Now take thy road, and I will take mine,’ said the giant. ‘And if thou forgettest thy promise, I will remember it.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →
tests
ending -est (stem «forget», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «forgettest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.