leavest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you leave

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«leavest» means «you leave», a form of «leave»: To leave is to go away from a place: leave the room. 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 leavest» = «you leave».

examples

• ‘If thou leavest them,’ said the hoodie, ‘we will steal them.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →
• ‘If thou leavest them, we will steal them,’ said a hoodie who was perched on a stone above him, and the giant answered: (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «leave», 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

Trees and pragmatics

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