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# comest

verb, old form used with thou

«comest» 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

«comest» means «you come», a form of «come»: To come is to move towards here, to the person speaking: Come here! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#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 comest» = «you come».

### Examples

- Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. (Torah DEU.28.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#x1)
- "Whence comest thou, maiden?" said Connla. (Celtic Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#x2)
- Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. (Torah DEU.28.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/comest/#x3)

### Note

Today: you come.

## On Mova

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