turnest

«turnest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you turn — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you turn

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«turnest» means «you turn», a form of «turn»: To turn means to move around a centre: the wheel turns. 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 turnest» = «you turn».

examples

• If thou turnest to flee, he will overtake thee. (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «turn», 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

In the corpora

• Yea, Thou turnest back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
• Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'
• What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?
• That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.

Trees and pragmatics

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