tellest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you tell

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«tellest» means «you tell», a form of «tell»: To tell is to say something to someone so they know 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 tellest» = «you tell».

examples

• I'll do whatever thou tellest me, only leave off beating me."--"Then I have taught thee sense, eh?" said the man.--"Oh, yes, yes, good husband!" cried she. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →

tests

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