writest

«writest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you write — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you write

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«writest» means «you write», a form of «write»: To write means to put letters, words or numbers on paper or a screen. 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 writest» = «you write».

examples

• What writest thou on yonder smooth parchment, sealing it with thy seal, and intrusting it to the horsemen and servants, who ride away, far away, to the city of the Pope? (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «write», 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

• And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes.

Trees and pragmatics

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