thankest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you thank

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«thankest» means «you thank», a form of «thank»: To tell someone you are grateful for something they did or gave: "Thank you!" 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 thankest» = «you thank».

examples

• "Stop," says he, quick as lightning, "I'll help thee and welcome, but if ever thou sayest that to me--if ever thou thankest me, see'st thou, thou 'lt never see me more. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

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