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# buildest

verb, old form used with thou

«buildest» 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

«buildest» means «you build», a form of «build»: To build is to make something by putting parts together, like a house, a tower or a model. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/buildest/#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 buildest» = «you build».

### Examples

- When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. (Torah DEU.22.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/buildest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you build.

## On Mova

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