hearest

«hearest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you hear — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you hear

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«hearest» means «you hear», a form of «hear»: To notice sounds with your ears: "I hear a bird." 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 hearest» = «you hear».

examples

• And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.' (Torah GEN.41.15, JPS 1917) tree →
• 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 «hear», a verb of EWT); corpora 4 (Torah 1, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee doth all flesh come.
• Then said Boaz unto Ruth: 'Hearest thou not, my daughter?

Trees and pragmatics

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