thinkest

«thinkest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you think — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you think

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«thinkest» means «you think», a form of «think»: To think is to use your mind to work something out. 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 thinkest» = «you think».

examples

• And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.' (Torah EXO.2.14, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «think», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou thinkest of him?
• Thinkest thou this to be thy right, or sayest thou: 'I am righteousness before God',

Trees and pragmatics

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