saidst

«saidst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you said — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you said

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

meaning for a pupil

«saidst» means «you said», a form of «say»: To say is to speak words: «Say hello.» 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 saidst» = «you said».

examples

• And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. (Torah GEN.44.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. (Torah GEN.44.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Thou saidst: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' (Torah GEN.32.12, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -st (stem «said», a verb of EWT); corpora 8 (Torah 7, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And thou saidst unto thy servants: Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
• And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
• Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'

Trees and pragmatics

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