wouldst

«wouldst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: would (with you) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

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

• Methought thou wouldst not let me go alive. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• And wouldst thou then read everything that is written? (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• Methought thou wouldst tear me in pieces with thy dogs. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →

tests

manual 5; corpora 32 (Torah 0, tales 32, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 3.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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