requirest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you require

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«requirest» means «you require», a form of «require»: To require is to need. A cake requires eggs. 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 requirest» = «you require».

examples

• Glivi stood on the summit of his castle, and said, "Arthur, what requirest thou of me, since nothing remains to me in this fortress, and I have neither joy nor pleasure in it; neither wheat nor oats?" (Celtic Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

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