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# actest

verb, old form used with thou

«actest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«actest» means «you act», a form of «act»: To act means to do something, to take action: act quickly in an emergency. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/actest/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou actest» = «you act».

### Examples

- Thou actest like the great calm ocean, that beckons us, and fills us with expectation--and when we embark upon thee, we sink, disappear, and cease to be. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/actest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you act.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «actest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/actest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«actest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/actest.html) on Mova free.