gettest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you get

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«gettest» means «you get», a form of «get»: To get is to receive or be given: get a present. 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 gettest» = «you get».

examples

• Take it home, and when thou gettest there, make to thyself a cattle-pen, and make it strong; then break the egg in the middle of thy cattle-pen, and thou shalt see something. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «get», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 0, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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