takest

«takest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you take — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you take

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«takest» means «you take», a form of «take»: To take is to get hold of something and move it or have it. 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 takest» = «you take».

examples

• Step on board and let him conduct thee; but if thou wouldest behold thy kingdom again, see that thou takest not the name of Allah into thy mouth." (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «take», a verb of EWT); corpora 3 (Torah 2, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband —

Trees and pragmatics

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