wentest

«wentest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you went — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you went

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou (past)

meaning for a pupil

«wentest» means «you went», a form of «go»: To go is to move from one place to another: go to school. 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 wentest» = «you went».

examples

• Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch. (Torah GEN.49.4, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «went», 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

• And Absalom said to Hushai: 'Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?'
• Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
• O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah

Trees and pragmatics

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