knewest

«knewest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you knew — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you knew

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

meaning for a pupil

«knewest» means «you knew», a form of «know»: To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told. 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 knewest» = «you knew».

tests

ending -est (stem «knew», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this;

Trees and pragmatics

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