remainest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you remain

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«remainest» means «you remain», a form of «remain»: To remain is to stay or still be there after other things have gone or been used: two cakes remain. 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 remainest» = «you remain».

examples

• ‘Greeting to thee also,’ answered Arthur. ‘Sit thou between two of my warriors, and thou shalt have minstrels before thee and all that belongs to one born to be a king, while thou remainest in my palace.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «remain», 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 «remainest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.