bade
part of speech
verb (past of «bid»; bid, bade, bidden)
meaning for a pupil
1) Bade means told or ordered someone to do something. tree →
2) Bade also means said goodbye: bade them farewell. This is an old use, found in fairy tales. tree →
sense in the lessons
in tales a fairy or a king gives a command to a person.
examples
note
nothing for maths; it says what was asked, not how many.
In the corpora
- And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.
- And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him; he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
- And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
- Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai:
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bade» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.