wouldest

«wouldest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: would (with you) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

would (with you)

part of speech

verb, past tense of will (with thou)

meaning for a pupil

You would; a form of "will" used with "thou" in the past or in wishing. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you would".

examples

• and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; (Torah DEU.21.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• ‘By the hand of my friend,’ answered Kai, ‘often dost thou utter that with thy tongue which thou wouldest not make good with thy deeds.’ (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →
• And Abimelech said: 'What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.' (Torah GEN.26.10, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 5; corpora 8 (Torah 5, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the king said: 'What wouldest thou?'
• And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou wouldest fail?
• Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,
• But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; and wouldest thou yet return to Me? saith the LORD.
• Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me!

Trees and pragmatics

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