givest

«givest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you give — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you give

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«givest» means «you give», a form of «give»: To give is to let someone have something of yours: give 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 givest» = «you give».

examples

• Thou givest nothing, and thou hearest nothing"--and, leaping from his seat, he took up a club and began beating the sack till he had knocked a hole in the wall, and beaten the sack to bits. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «give», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Thou givest it unto them, they gather it; Thou openest Thy hand, they are satisfied with good.
• Who givest salvation unto kings, who rescuest David Thy servant from the hurtful sword.
• The eyes of all wait for Thee, and Thou givest them their food in due season.
• He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
• If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him?

Trees and pragmatics

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