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# carriest

verb, old form used with thou

«carriest» 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

«carriest» means «you carry», a form of «carry»: To carry is to hold something and take it with you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriest/#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 carriest» = «you carry».

### Examples

- When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, (Torah DEU.21.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/carriest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you carry.

## On Mova

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