needest

«needest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: need (with you) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

need (with you)

part of speech

verb, past tense of need, used with thou (second person singular)

meaning for a pupil

Have to; must do or have something. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you need"; the -est ending belonged to thou.

examples

• And if thou dost not find trouble in that adventure, thou needest not to seek it during the rest of thy life.” (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →

primary record

need

tests

manual 5; corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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