wantest

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you want

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«wantest» means «you want», a form of «want»: To want means to wish to have or do something. 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 wantest» = «you want».

examples

• And whenever thou wantest a meal say, 'Sack, sack, give me to eat and drink!' and immediately thou shalt have thy fill both of meat and drink, so now thou wilt have wherewithal to comfort thy wife and children." (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →

tests

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