tookest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you took

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

meaning for a pupil

«tookest» means «you took», 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 tookest» = «you took».

examples

• Shoot the arrows at the statue, and the rider shall tumble into the sea, but the horse will fall down by thy side, and thou shalt bury him in the place from which thou tookest the bow and arrows. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) tree →

tests

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