performest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you perform

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«performest» means «you perform», a form of «perform»: To perform is to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience. 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 performest» = «you perform».

examples

• "Who art thou?" he asked, "whose outward appearance is that of an animal, while thou willingly performest acts of mercy?" (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «perform», a verb of EWT); 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 «performest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.