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# droppest

verb, old form used with thou

«droppest» 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

«droppest» means «you drop», a form of «drop»: To drop is to let something fall from your hand; what you drop is lost to you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/droppest/#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 droppest» = «you drop».

### Examples

- "My lord King!" says the Queen, "tell me wherefore thou droppest bitter tears?" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/droppest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you drop.

## On Mova

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