sawest

«sawest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you saw — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you saw

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

meaning for a pupil

«sawest» means «you saw», a form of «see»: To see is to notice something with your eyes: I see a bird. 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 sawest» = «you saw».

examples

• And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?' (Torah GEN.20.10, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «saw», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Abimelech said unto Abraham: 'What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?'
• When thou sawest a thief, thou hadst company with him, and with adulterers was thy portion.
• Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image.
• The ram which thou sawest having the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.
• And Thou sawest the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red Sea;

Trees and pragmatics

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